Hello everyone, i'm andrew! I'm an amateur webdesigner, and i'm planning on making an online text-based game, just for the fun of it. I've bought a 3.0 Ghz dual core (intel) CPU, 1 gb ram and a SATA hdd (as much as i know, they're faster). I've recently tried some big queries on mysql (adding 50000 rows in a table, 10k rows in another, and adding an element from the second table to the first, depending on a part of a column in the first table. I guess this is not really relevant). I was really surprised to see it using under 32megs of ram, and less then 2% cpu power. The whole script took around 30 minutes, which i think it's pretty much for this system. at this point, I realised the database was on the old (not sata). Moved it on the other SATA hdd, which resulted in a timeframe of ~18 mins for the same query. I wish mysql would use at least half of the system's capacity for mysql. Any hints on what variables should i change in the mysql configuration? Edit: oh, and i'm under win. please, no replies like "upgrade to linux", i'm using this box from time to time with Guitar Rig (VST plugin), and i'm not aware of a linux variant for it. Thanks, andrew