Considering networking and monitors I agree MP, I do that already. But it's nice to have a good powerful workstation. Not just for Vue, photoshop which I use alot can use dual processors, although concerning vue, previewing renders at a higher level of detail before I send them to the farm would be good. The fact is that I need a more powerful machine, I've got 1gb mem now and it's fully populated, the threads I see here talk of some scenes requiring 2gb. The processor is 1.7ghz, slow by todays standards. The graphics card is a gforce4 of some model that I can't remember as I type this, so that needs upgrading as indesign (which I also use alot) can display on multiple monitors and I want that functionallity. So in all my thinking is, if I'm going to go get/build a new machine then I may as well go for something that does all, or as much, as I forsee me requiring before my next upgrade cycle. Sorry to ramble, but I'll be taking a great interest in all those computer, graphics card, processor threads in here and elsewhere over the next few weeks. regards Sentinal