Originally posted by dragonfx animation wise you wont use the second cpu in your life (only renderwise) so animation wise go buy the most powerful graphic card you can afford... Hi dragon Let me get this straight...when rendering animation (that's my final goal here) i dont need dual processors? why? we still have to go thru the batch render program or im wrong? and if this is true, Maya uses only 2 cpus when render in a scene? (No movement involved) I'm confuse now....