My "good" machine (AMD 1.4) does have a Asus A7V motherboard, which was all the rage when I built it about a year ago. I also actually installed the drivers for the DMA 99 drives (two WD 30 GB ones that support it). The drives are both formatted Fat 32, incidently, I don't actually know if they run during the render or not, as i seem to have neglected to hook up the HD light. ;-) Anyway, from the results so far it looks like AMDs don't do too bad, Pentium 3s aren't all that bad either. Wish we could get some results on some of the faster Celerons, and some on Macs, especially 700 Mhz+ G4s. I'll do the test Tuesday on my Mac G3 400, I'm sure it is going to be over 5 minutes. Sort of an old turkey, but it doesn't get email viruses!