OH dear :( It'll still take longer than 3 seconds to load a 50Meg pz3, even with a gig of ram on my machine it takes 20seconds just to load poser & that's without a default figure. (Athlon XP 3200 runs at 2.6Ghz, got one of them myself) You'll still get slow down if you load more than 2 figures with accessories but it's not as bad as you'll get with your present machine. No chance in hell of getting it to render in under a minute with 4 figures loaded, but it'll be faster than now. The only way any of us will ever get performance like you want is with a Cray or something like that. Don't forget to shut off all the crap XP loads up in the background when you get it ;)