Oh I have long sense put carrara down. In fact I gave it to my sister about a month ago. I am running a dual pIII 700 with 512mb ram. I just recently upgraded the proccessors ;-) now that you can get 700's for just over 200 bucks. I was running it when I had my two 450's in with 256 mb ram and it sucked! I am running the same card as you. The Oxygen VX1 powerthreads drivers for dual processors are awesome. Great performance increase not just noticable difference. I run lightwave now and that runs without a hitch. Even when I was using version 5 it was very stable on my system. I am very glad to see that you are not have any problems with Carrara but many of my friends and colleagues rue the day that they bought it and just put it down for something with more stability and power.