My preference is home built..my latest computer that runs my poser 4 & 5 along with my other art programs etc is: Asus P4c800 Deluxe, i875P chipset, onboard gigabit LAN Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz, 800mhz FSB, 1mb cache, Hyperthreading Corsair XMS TwinX DDR PC3200 (2x512 Dual Channel) (2x) 120gb hard drives in RAID-0 array, 7200rpm, 8mb cache 60gb hard drive, 7200rpm, 8mb cache 160gb hard drive, 7200rpm, 8mb cache MSI DR8-A 8x DVD Writer Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800PRO, 256mb DDR2, 256-bit, 8x AGP Creative Sound Blaster Live! Logitech MX-310 Mouse on Func 1030 ..It is a great and powerful machine, a lot of fun to game on.