Thanks! A couple of nice tidbits in there. As for noise...when I have an animation rendering and all the machines in my office running, that totals out to 16 4" fans and 9 smaller ones (CPU, chipset, and graphic cards), so you could say I have one hell of a white noise zone there... That does sound like a nice feature. Now if Max didn't have (1)such a steep learning curve and (2) an equally steep price...at least for us one man studio wannabe's.... :P