Same here I have had very complex scenes to where the 750mhz is starting to slow big time but the render never really takes that long. I think my machine would start smoking if it had to render that long. Let me know what kinda scenes you are doing. I found a place here in Chicago that is selling dual pentium 3 933mhz with 526 megs of ram and windows NT for $2299 I am thinking of buying that machine. I dont know of any sencondary programs though I guess I got off the subject.

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