I saw a huge ncrease in rendering speed in P7 when I went dual core as opposed to single. Now when I render anything, I render it with everything on, because I cane, and still get the same render times I had before, with everything off.

BTW just got a base dual core athlon 3800+ system from Tiger Direct Memorial day sale for only $399! It only has a 250 gig hd, and 1 gig or ram, but we'll drop the ram and hd from the wife's older system into it. In com[parison, I got a dual core 5000+ stsyem back in November for mopre then twice the price, $998!!

Plus this new system has xp pro installed NOT vista.. (UGH!)

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.