That should be: the 866 is 12x faster than the 166 on Max renders.

For what it's worth, some crashes on Antares running under ME are a study in understatement. Overloaded, the ap simply winks out and is gone.

While I'm at it, I have to take a crack at Dell. Not only did the hard drive on the Dimension 4100 fail less than 6 mo. out of the box, but the 17" monitor followed in its vortex two months later. True, the Austin company got me new components quickly enough, but the replacement hard drive would not initialize without the intervention of Maxtor's supplied EZ-BIOS, which gives you the option of booting from the hard drive or floppy, and that's it. No sign of my previous BIOS interface. When I compained to the Dell technician about this in a subsequent phone session, he promised to email me the fix immediately. I have yet to see the promised message, and my frequent re-boots repeatedly remind of this end dangling loosely.

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