Heheehehheeee.... I really need to boiler-plate this... Athlon 64 3000+ GIgabyte K8VNXP mobo. 1.5 gig PC-3200 DDR ram Win2k SP2 XP2k lite 1.2 EVGA Geforce 4 TI-4400, latest drivers 540 gigs across 5 HDD (4 PATA, 1 SATA) Sony DVD-+ burner 19" Envision CRT monitor (usually 1024x768; increases as needed) Graphics Apps: Poser 4 & 5 Vue4.22 VuePro 4.53 Truespace 5.5 Mimic 2 Pro Bryce 5 Shade 7 basic demo PSP 8 Photoshop LE Cinema 4D CE 6 Adobe Premiere 6.0 Currently checking out the Particle Illusion 3 demo Lots of little apps like the UTC, RTEncoder, UVMapper, Mover 101, Morph Manager, etc. Render times are what I would call 'quick'; the fastest box in my rendergarden has an Athlon 2500+ in it, and the Athlon 64 does a frame in a distributed at least half again as fast (by the time my fastest satellite box has done 2 frames, the main box has done at least 3, and may be chewing on #4).