It’s been an interesting change of pace and given me some time to work on other projects. Being back on the R7 290x graphics card with a mere 2GB RAM is the final limiting factor – no Iray. 8GB just seems poky, with the system chewing up a large chunk for it’s own purposes. It’s amazing how quickly I grew accustomed to the 16GB RAM too. The current computer I’m using has a i7-960 I retired a few years back due to concerns it had been overcooked one too many times, so I’m not pushing it too hard. I’ve been away from my render rig a while now.