fretshredder, a person after my own heart! A guitar player, programmer, 3D CGer with a very nice system. I'm afraid to ask what kind of guitar equipment you possess. :0) Mine is a comparatively quaint: P4 2.54GHz 1 GB PC2100 DDR RAM (working on 2 GB as we speak!) 190 GB HDD GeForce4 TI 4600 + GeForce4 MX 420 video cards Windows XP Pro, SP 1 Poser 5 SR1 runs rather nicely, but I don't push its limits (cloth room, hair room). Rendering does bury the needle on the CPU, which is a shame since LW and C4D don't. Poser 5 doesnot like StarDock's WindowBlinds (latest version). When I run P5 with 'blinds loaded, some of the 'accessory' windows are opened and not closable (Walk Designer, Python, Joint Parameters, varies). Poser 5 is the only application so far that has problems with this. BYS