I'm running Vue 6.5 on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - four 2.4 GigaHertz cores - with 8 GB of RAM. Wiindows XP 64 bit. Water cooled, sorry. Koolance Exos-LT cools the CPU, which is almost half of the heat budget.

My best Render Cow (besides the main one) is the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked from 2.4 to 3.0 GHz with a Scythe Ninja as cooling. (Ninjas are cool, and silent. Unfortunately the rest of my computers more than make up for it.) It's almost as fast as the main Quad, possibly because it's running Linux instead of Windows XP. I have two identical 1.83 GHz HP Cows, I plan to install Linux on one and compare.

My worst Render Cow is the Intel Pentium 4 which at 3.0 GHz is about 1/7th the Core 2 Duo at the same clock speed. Possibly because it has no (0.5GB) memory. I'm going to check if I can upgrade the CPU and memory. If not I'll build another Linuix Cow.

The Render Cow licence allows five, I'm taking full advantage. :-)

Note: if you can run your cows under Windows, do so. I have to manually restart the Linux Cows after each job because the old ones don't close the network socket. If this bug was fixed I'd buy a lot more licences, but since the program isn't supposed to run on Linux I just count my blessings.

I just hope I don't need that kidney I sold to pay for Vue Infinite. Just kidding! But I wonder if "Infinite" is the price.