What are the specs on your computer?

I know of no benchmarks, but it would be interesting for some of us to share our files to see exactly how we are doing in comparison to others, but probably not practical, nor possibly legal

Looks to me that about all you can do, practically, would be to add another Gb of ram, otherwise it looks like a good CAD machine.

I went from a non-CAD spec Dell to a Xi, specs listed above in 'ship in a bottle report' post, large assembly files that took up to 5 minutes to open, rotate view, save now takes less than 20 seconds. Saves that took a full minute on multi-sheet assembly drawings on the old machine (with SWX2003) take less than 5 seconds on the new machine (with 2004).

I'm sure there are other factors at play, disc fragmentation, bus speed, etc, but...

maybe he has already done these things but before he runs off to replace hardware maybe he could check out:

there are a few check lists available people have done to help you with this if you search.

He's only running a 2.8 GHz Pentium.

The benchmark pretty much takes care of 2 and 3. 1 is a possibility, but it isn't go> maybe he has already done these things but before he runs off to replace

well I don't know the benchmark is a pretty simple one running on a small file that gauges processor speed for rebuilds. maybe he has other things he can look at if he is working with assemblies which bog the system down - that was the point of my answer. true enough the latest greatest system will churn calcs in about 60% of the time of his 2.8. just because the hardware runs faster doesn't necessarily mean he will achieve twice as much during the day.