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Smook, >> Thanks for well motivated answers. Some quantitative info would be greatly appreciated. << You are welcome. I was looking for a benchmark file in the libraries but the only one I could find was very old ('92) and didn't include Pentiums at all. >> Could you perhaps benchmark the rendering time of the 57 Chevy using the following machines : a) 486 dx 2 100 b) Pentium 60 c) Pentium 90 << I only have one of those (Pentium 60) – do you think I'm rich or something??? Just kidding, I will do the Pentium 60 and maybe someone else can do a) and c) >> I assume that these machines will have the same RAM and Bus << Bus is not too important when rendering since most of the time is spent in floating point, only a few seconds are taken for loading files typically. RAM is only important if you exceed the necessary amount for the animation. Then you build a swap file on the hard drive and your rendering times go to hell. >> The rendering time for each machine will greatly assist me to make the best "dollar per rendering minute" purchase decision. << What is the price difference (in approximate US dollars) between similarly configured systems but with the different motherboards? I would guess that it is only $100 or so here in the USA. Martin