I did not ask if the graphicsd card has 3D support but if Ambient (and maybe other) standard desktop applications make use of it for drawing windows, icons, toolbar images, window shadows ... I know that my card has 3D support but 3D is very much designed for games and this is the main support in MOS as far as I know. I don't think that Ambient, MPlayer or others does make use of that besides for special tools like the screen cubes and such. I was asking for the standard desktop window, graphics ... operations if they use hardware acceleration. If this would be using graphics card acceleartion then I would expect it to not draw all the CPU power. It should have almost effect on the CPU meter.