Hi there, I got a Dell Precision T5500 (with 24 GB of memory; it seems I really need about 8) yesterday, and after organising a Displayport-cable today was able to run a first test, writing to an external USB-2 disk: 10.002 frames iMac (I7-4771 3,5 GHz - Passmark 9940) Tue Feb 24 17:15:44 2015: Job: Encoding image data … Tue Feb 24 17:59:50 2015: Mopping up 0 44:06 (2646 sec) 3,8 fps Tue Feb 24 18:03:36 2015: Transcode job completed successfully 04:46 Dell (2 x X5650 2.7 GHz - Passmark 7584, Dual 11695) [Windows 7] Wed Feb 25 15:00:12 2015: Job: Encoding image data … Wed Feb 25 15:27:07 2015: Mopping up 0 26:55 (1615 sec) 6,2 fps Wed Feb 25 15:30:15 2015: Transcode job completed successfully 03:08 Dell + imac as background render node Wed Feb 25 16:00:23 2015: Job: Encoding image data … Wed Feb 25 16:18:12 2015: Mopping up 0 17:49 (1069 sec) 9,3 fps Wed Feb 25 16:20:35 2015: Transcode job completed successfully 02:23 Would it be better to run a Linux on it? Will using the eSata connection for the external HD make much of a difference? Regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ DCPomatic mailing list DCPomatic(a)carlh.net http://main.carlh.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dcpomatic