Thanks for reminding me about the test file Jim posted! Spun and run, here's the render.... I missed a few seconds, but the render time is between 170 and =no more= than 180 seconds. Once I get a stopwatch proggie for my pda, I'll do a little more scientific render... But damn! That extra memory bandwidth really shows...particularly when you consider that the chip is actually clocking at 2.0 ghz.....