Ok. The numbers are in for my old computer. It's a Tigerdirect Pentium II 400 on a Microstar MS6119 ATX BX2 main board with 256 meg of PC100 SDRAM, and a Guillemot Xentor 32 2X AGP video card. I'm going to use this computer as the benchmark for this test with all other computer list as a percentage of it's render marks. Half as fast would get a rating of 50. Twice as fast would get a rating of 200. Just as fast would get a rating of 100, and so on. Here are its Cactus Motel render ratings: Final to screen: 35 minutes, 50 seconds Final to disk: 38 minutes, 16 seconds Ultra to screen: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 18 seconds With that as a benchmark, my new Dell would get an average rating of 269. The Athlon Thunderbird 700 would get an average rating of 221. -SMT

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!