SMT, My "Final to Screen" rendering ended up taking 20 min., 19 sec. I didn't try to do the final to diskl, though, but I have to assume it would have been even less time. Ultra to Scree was 2 hr, 24 min, but I had my Eudora mail open the whole time,as well as Mc Affee and Zone Alarm running. I don't know if that should make a difference or not in rendering speed? Windows 98 SE, Athlon 600 mhz K7, 128 MB RAM, on a Compaq (yes, I know you hate Compaq, but I like it), with the Voodoo 3 graphics card. Far as SDRAM goes, I have no idea, and I don't know how to find out! Cheers, Mike PS I'll try the Ultra again with no other programs running, later.