Both machines are Dual 2.7. Clean builds. The Decklink card, is in the 133 slot, it has been flashed with the 5.02 driver. Before I disabled the Software Updater I ran it and updated everything. I disabled it incase any OS updater would be run by an editor… I installed the RAM 8GB (samsung). The systems run: FCP, After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, ProTools, Cleaner6, they are loaded… And i have editors that love to I-M, surf while rendering in After Effects, digitizing in FCP, and listening to music in iTunes allll at the same time. I don’t support this kind of abuse, but we have other G5’s Dual2’s and they were solid and let the operators get away with this for over a year. The additional internal SATA is by Western Digital, it is attached to the second onboard SATA connection. Last night I was working with the operators and with just FC running we were getting the beachball on capture, render, save, import –Not every, or all the time, or even off the same tape, or while importing the same graphic -I don’t believe it’s a drive issue. I am thinking on pulling the RAM, and going down to 4GB. Could there be a leak?