DrOsborn,Pentiums are better than Celerons...AMD is superb. I render large scenes for print with Poser and Vue d'Esprit...I work with over 100mg files in Photoshop7and Painter7.Never have any of the problems with freezes,error messages,crashes,and all the strange things that fill the forum.......I have a Celeron. If you can afford it get the AMD or Pentium,they are better..but if you can't..don't worry,you don't render with "spec sheets". SWAMP