You'll be more than fine with 1.5Gb of ram The cpu equals rendering speed, if there is anything you want to increase, I would suggest that. $1600USD? I build similar PC's for $700-$800USD Of course, I notice you haven't mentioned a video card, you could spend a ton of money on one of those these days. AS

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