BTW - I realized that one thing that affects performance is your monitor specs... For example, I use UXGA instead of VGA (it's a laptop), w/ 119 pixels/inch. I suspect that render times on a standard SVGA monitor would be much faster :) Oh, and PJF: You're right - I had misstated things... I hadn't seen the benchmarks for about 6 months, but a quick check at Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com) bears you out. Thank you for the correction. /P