Lon, I hate to burst your bubble, but the P4 is unfortunately not the best cpu for rendering. Like stated above Render speed is mainly contingent on the Floating POint performance of the processor. I haven't tried it yet with Bryce, but recently I tried rendering the same scene in Cinema 4D XL, on several different platforms. I tried it on a 1.4 Ghz P4 with 128 mb of ram and on a 1 Ghz Athlon with 128 mb ram. The P4 did the scene in about 48 seconds. The Athlon did it in 26 seconds. This scene was not memory intensive, rather it used volumetric lights. You can even try it on your rig. Download the Cinema 4D XL 6 demo from www.maxoncomputer.com and render the Inv-vol.c4d that comes with it. Use the following settings: Desktop resolution: 1024X768 at 32 bit Render in main view See the time at the lower left corner. The P4 by the way got the smack down by an 800 mhz duron with only 64 megs of ram, that finished the same render in 36 seconds! Regards Carnifex