Hey thank you Thalaxis. You are quite knowledgeable. I am a sys builder (among other things) and am planning to build myself a new machine in a month or so. I think I'll take a look at the dual Xeon rig you mentioned. I appreciate your comments - they're useful to more than sacada. Personally, I really do like the nVidia geForece cards for 3D work - much more than the ATI Radeon's. The OpenGL is the nVidia cards always seems more standard/stable and always works well with a wide variety of my software programs(which are MAX and Truespace, Vue, et.al.)