sandoppe; Do those other computers work? If so, you have a nice little rendergarden all ready to be assembled. All you would need is a 4 port KVM switch (to run the renderboxes with one keyboard, mouse, and monitor) and a 5 port switch to connect to your main system. Load Win2k in a minimal set up, and Vue should be able to use all of them (the first box in my rendergarden was an original Athlon 700 with all of 384megs of PC-133 sdram). Youi could even configure one of them to let you surf while the main system is tied up with managing a render. Vue is optimized for hyperthreading, but I would recommend AMD. An Athlon 64 is an excellent chip, and if you get the socket 939 version, then all you will have to do to use the dual core chips coming later this year is flash your BIOS. And two physical cores will beat two virtual cores any day...except in benchmarks geared to make the virtual cores look better.... >:) Plus the fact that AMD simply does not have the thermal issues that Intel currently has.