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Lee, In the past, have you kept an eye on the memory usage status during renderings? If you render stuff that sends that count near or over 16 megs, then you're going to page to disk when you drop to 16 megs in the Pentium machine, and at that point you've lost ground, speed-wise. No matter how fast the processing chip is, rendering is going to be really slow if the renderer has to swap to disk. You'd be better off with your present system. If, on the other hand, your renderings don't cause disk swaping, more RAM won't make things any faster. Buy as much RAM as you need to keep the "Swap: ___" line at zero. Within that parameter, get the fastest chip you can afford.