Well, Haloedrain, the only reason to benchmark stuff is to get an idea of which hardware configurations are the most time-profitable for us... In this case, until people with Macs start posting, anyway, Johnny's Athlon 2200 takes the cake. The factors involved, as far as I understand it, are : Processor speed RAM amount FSB speed HD speed (NOT capacity) When the Render Time (Rt) equals 1/60th of a second, we will have realtime rendering. That's when all of our old Bryce scenes become gold, in terms of the video-game industry and of course the imaging and virtual reality industries. Processors need be a mere 200 times faster or so to accomplish this, which seems ludicrous, but then again, when the Commodore 64 came out at a whopping 1 MHz processor speed, who would have thought we'd be pulling GHz so soon, and for so cheap? Also, financially... The fastest renderers are also, to invert some obnoxious Law of Money for once, the cheapest! Some people stand by Intel, but alas... Let's see some Mac render times? ANYONE?!?!? (grins)