Hello rainfrey. There are several motherboard for dual Athlons, and building a PC from scratch is almost a brainless task these days. (Puts people like me out of business.) Basically, if you can find a place like PC Club in your area, the store guys will walk you through it. If not, there are a bunch of us techies here that will help you. It should take you about 3 hours to build a box from scratch and get the operating system installed - and all the latest drivers, of course. If you want us to help, there are 3 things you should tell us now. #1 - Where are you located (so that we can find you a good components store, or make a recommendation for a web store purchase)? #2 - How much money can you reasonably spend on this? #3 - What all would you like to do with your machine, in addition to making Vue renders? If you like, we can take this discussion offline via IM or e-mail. Try sprucefir@earthlink.net. I promise you that you can do this quite easily and you'll be suprised at how little instruction you will need from us. (Oh, and #4 - what do you have in your current box that you'll be able to salvage? Hard disk drive? PCI modem or LAN card? Video card? etc.)