SVDL, very nice render times there! I had a Q6600 in my hands at the PC shop the other day, turning it over and over muttering something like 'my precioussssss!!!!!'. :biggrin:

The Q6600 seems to perform very well in this comparison. I agree though that the initial loading of textures and preparing for the render takes up a large chunk of the render times. On my AMD it was about 1'45" into the render that both cores kicked in and on my notebook it was closer to 3'00". The hard drive throughput is having a huge impact on that, as is  memory timings IMHO.

UA