Essentially what it boils down to is this. Carrara does take advantage of OpenGL or Direct 3d hardware for rendering. Your 3d card is important, but you will mostly see the difference in preproduction. Despite what use Carrara may make of your video card, it still mostly uses the CPU for rendering. With a P3 800 and 256 megs of ram you're going to get some pretty good performance. Your system is going to be able to nicely handle what Carrara and the Corel software ask of it just nicely. Unless you're doing large professional quality animations you should be ok. Also, Tephladon, where are you getting your information about dual Athlons? Last I checked, which was just now, there haven't been any dual Athlon motherboards released. Dual Athlon has been a promise that AMD has been making that they have yet to keep as far as I know.