Flay

Cool. I apparently have one of those in the shaft drive of my motorcycle. Always wondered how it worked!

Swann_
Small update:
http://vimeo.com/29234304 [vimeo.com]

You could also open a Render Scheduler pane and click off the “clear completed jobs” toggle at the bottom. It will then show a history of all your past render times.

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=23072 [sidefx.com] was the thread I mentioned. Perhaps that environment variable might help you out too (I know not what it does, but it's yet another path to check).

As for old machines. I upgraded two recently to 4.3Ghz/16gig, including water cooling, for about $440.00 each.

So what if the CDRom drive is from the 90's and the graphics card would struggle with Doom, it renders good :-).