BobBoyer

Great! Thanks everyone for the information and advice. I appreciate it.

Yes. I should have been more clear. I suppose it would be pretty cool if the hardware was capable enough to render watercolor in realtime too... Probably a pipe dream though.

I'm building a new PC for Chief rendering work. I have three workstations that perform pretty well for design, but high quality renderings are painfully slow and tie up the machine they are on. With new AMD processors now coming with up to 64 cores (holy cow!) I'm wondering if there is a practical limit to how many cores/threads Chief can utilize for rendering purposes. Also, is there a sweet spot for CPU/RAM/GPU specs that people agree gives great performance/dollar with X11/12? Thanks for any discussion/tips you can offer.