I planned 1Gb of memory, but what i actually would like to know is, if i buy equally prized procerros from AMD and Intel, which one renders scenes in Vue faster. For example, which one is faster in rendering, Intel P4 2.6Ghz or AMD Athlon 3000+ (2166Mhz) I also use LightWave and i know that LW is very very SSE2 optimized, thus even P4 2,0GHz is faster than AthlonXP 2800+ But i am interested in Vue d'Esprit. Are there any "special" SSE2 optimizations that give an edge to P4 or not. When it comes to pure FPU power, id rather buy AMD, because i get more performance for less money.