You've got a pretty decent system there. The only thing that's really worth upgrading is the drive, that's the main bottleneck. I work on an Athlon64 3500+ system similar to Operaguy, on a P4 2.8 FSB800 with 1.5 Gb DDR400 Dual Channel (Radeon9600Pro) and an AthlonXP 2700+ (1 Gb DDR333, Ti4200). You'd expect the P4 to perform better with Poser 5 than the AthlonXP, but it doesn't. The AthlonXP has two drives in hardware Raid 0, while the Pentium has a single drive. Result: the AthlonXP outperforms the Pentium. Of course, the Athlon64 is significantly faster than the other two, mainly due to the two WD Raptors in Raid 0. If your system has a RAID controller, then buy two identical drives (Hitachi Deskstars are big, fast and affordable) and configure them as RAID 0. You'll definitely see a performance increase for all your apps, not only Poser. Shelling out for a complete new system may be a bit overdone. Unless you don't have a RAID controller. Upgrading the video card is absolutely useless for Poser. That x800 is a good card, Poser only uses the graphics cards capabilities for drawing in the document window. My lowly Ti4200 has no problem keeping up. The final render is pure CPU. Hope this helps, Steven.

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