Thank you, thank you, thank you...

I am getting positive replies.

"That ATI graphics card is still pretty decent. It fits quite well with the specs of the CPU. Must have been pretty high end 3 years ago when you bought it."

It sure is. I never had a problem with video graphics... Now, needing more RAM may be to my best interest at this point.

"The best you can do is adding more RAM. Don't stop at 512 Mb, try to go for at least 768 Mb. Windows XP and all your programs will love it.
What kind of hard disk do you have? It might be worth to add a big fast second disk, say a 160 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 drive with 8 Mb or 16 Mb cache. Again, your OS and all your apps will love that."

I have been dreaming of updating both hard drive and RAM.

I currently have a 40GB Hard drive with only 10GB used. Don't sound like a good sign does it? I believe - since I have a Dell 4400, that I have 2 hard drive storages [I might be wrong], and was considering getting a second hard drive to do the job, but more importantly a faster RAM would do the job.

Been relying on 256 RAM - that was '03, now since all these new things coming up, memory is key.

I really appreciate all the replies I'm getting so that I'll know what to prepare and what to expect.

Sorry for bringing out my computer specs since this is a Poser forum and not the Computer Tech forum -- lol... I'm just fascinated with all the things Poser.

Looking forward to more input.

Thanks,

jlovesart2
AKA JBWStar

P.S. to svdl(Steven) - I have worked with P5 and tried your Dynamic Clothing (which by far are the best... Keep up the good work) - would love to show you some works I did with them. Will you be making some more for P5 and possibly 6?

Have a great evening.

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Asus N50-600 - Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz · Windows 10 Home/11 upgrade 64-bit · 16GB DDR4 RAM · 1TB SSD and 1TB HDD; Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 - 6GB GDDR5 VRAM; Software: Poser Pro 11x