But I need to take into account that I am going to be using the Poser renderer which can be REALLY slow also and also there is a possibility that I will also use the Vue 4 renderer. Does that matter? Also, I have had bad experiences with ATHLON chips. I had a motherboard go bad after only 1 year and the shop I brought it to told me that they have had many problems with ATHLON boards and virtually none with the Pentium4-based motherboards.