heheh.. I just did a test animation to see what's going on and this is some benchmarks: I did 90 frames @ 640x480 on the Ocean preset. the end result was: ==================================== Resource Usage At End Of Rendering ==================================== 53.699 Mb Peak total size(Estimated) 10.104 Mb Peak arena size ==================================== 48.563 Mb Current 0.125 Mb NURBS Surface Shapes 6.667 Mb Render Cache 1.875 Mb MEL 0.125 Mb Transforms 1.000 Mb NURBS AG 0.313 Mb Data Blocks ==================================== Total Time For Render (hh:mm:ss): 01:54:20 Total Elapsed Time For Maya (hh:mm:ss): 01:54:20 not bad if you ask me... almost 2 hours but it was pretty nice compared to my old pc -Emo