Oh yeah...FSB (Front Side Bus) VERY IMPORTANT. Get as big of a FSB as you can, the bigger = the faster your speed will be. (That's very un-technical of me, but it gets the main point through) I build 1 or 2 PC's a month, mostly for friends, family or for my boss. I buy almost exclusively from a chain of stores we have out here in the Western U.S. called "Fry's". They actually don't have a website proper, but you can see their "outlet" site at www.outpost.com With them I build good/average machines for around $800 complete. I'm talking about friends who do some gaming but aren't going to plunk down $2,000+ so they can have an extra 1ghz in cpu speed, and a $600 video card, etc, etc. I usually have them all stick to MSI motherboards, Nvidia video cards, Western Digital hard drives@7200rpm, 512mb strips of Kingston memory (or something with a lifetime warranty), Creative audio cards, and you can get 17" monitors and dvd burners for basically $80 each. This is what has worked for me. Yeah, DAZ has mentioned they are working with Nvidia to have Bryce 6.0 render faster than Bryce 5.5. Since they are doing that, I would assume they will be looking into Bryce having multiple processor support, and 64-bit support. That's just a guess on my part, but it just makes sense, imo. AgentSmith

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