Hey Dale, It is pretty awesome to have all the machines rendering. Funny thing is, I feel guilty if I go to sleep at night with nothing rendering. :) Don't put the rack anywhere close to your bedroom if you want to get any sleep. LOL... These things are loud. It's like an airport. One thing we did that helps with heat is to mount the computers in the rack with a space in between each one. SO... it's computer, computer sized space, computer computer sized space etc... It takes up more space this way but we still have room for 4 more computers and another kvm in the 5' tall rack that everything is mounted in. If you don't do this the computers will overheat and shut down unless you live in the North Pole and leave the windows open. Another thing is to make sure that all the computers are on standby power modules. This saved my bacon when the power went out on us. Everything was black but the machines were still humming along. Oh.... LOL another thing. Make sure you mark your cables to avoid a freakin nightmare. LOL Everything else was easy. I was amazed at how easy this all went together. We bought the computers with XP Pro preinstalled. All we needed to do was verify that XP updates were current and then go in and load the software and start rendering. Max has a great feature called "Archive". It creates a .zip file of your scene with every single texture map included with the directory structure intact. This gives you the ability to do anything you need to do on your workstation without having to worry if each and every machine has the proper files. We archive, extract the archive onto each machine and we have 8 machines that are identical without having to think about it. Anyway... I hope this helps, Joe