Maxxx; (flips to page 4 of the goody list and muses) I'm not going to spoil E-on's party on this...so I'll just say that there are 5 seperate entries on the subject of multi layer rendering, and leave it at that. But you missed a few options, there..... >:) But ohhh, are you gonna grin when you =see= that list... Let's just say that I'm already scoping out a socket 939 mobo to upgrade to, so that when the dual core Athlon 64's hit, I'll be ready to up the system specs. And add another box to my garden (I'm seriously starting to look at one of the cheapy rackmount frames; it would clean up the installation a lot...)