hartcons,

Maybe the comment "The machines have been working great overall" and "On all of my pcs so far I've had to reboot (or sometimes even cold boot) on an hourly basis in order to keep things running smoothly" don't say the same story? If you are really having that much trouble with your PC, something is wrong. Bad hardware, more likely bad driver. Of the six boxes I move between, they never get rebooted unless windows update tells me I need to reboot to finish installation of the update. Maybe the difference is, all are running win2k or XP, and all but one are a major brand PC (IBM or Dell). They might get rebooted once a week if there is an update. The homegrown PC, a dual 800 PIII, used to be a little twitchy (though not the reboot hourly variety) under win2k, but runs great under XP. All the boxes are used for Carrara and coding, some games, some video work in Premier.

Best regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
3D extensions for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins