Shoop is the name of "rds" who gave us his hardware info and and his opinion based on personal experience. He post the msg while I was writting, so I missed it. That's why I thanked him for the info. Happy? :-) "You somehow think?" hm! I hope my infos help you make the right judgement. :-) You know to be honest, I have never thought of this before ... overclocking the CPU on a render box. I would suggest you go slow on this matter. As gaming softwares and 3D apps don't interact the same way. Specially Vue is a Godzilla for the CPU; and if the pollygon counts gets real high on your scene or frame it might cause serious damage on a overclocked CPU. If you do overclock the CPU, drop a msg in this msg board. I for sure would love to know how did that go. :-)