I have to agree that more RAM may not always be the answer. I have an Athlon 2600 XP system with 1.5GB of SDRAM, an Athlon 1.4 GHz system with 1GB of SDRAM, an eMachine with a 2.66 GHz Celeron and 1GB of DDR RAM (really my wife's), and a Toshiba Laptop with an Intel based 1.6 Ghz processor and 512MB of laptop (who knows, the laptop is over two years old) RAM. Although all of the desktop systems render faster, the laptop can render larger scenes in both Poser 4, Poser 5, and Vue 4.2. In fact, the Athlon 2600 is the fastest, followed closely by the eMachine, and the Athlon 1.4Ghz takes a distant third, just a touch faster than the laptop. But when the complexity of the scene is a concern, the laptop will render larger scenes than any of the desktops without locking up. My 'Beach Party' 58 Faerie scene in the gallery was rendered on the laptop using Vue. It took 8 days to render, but kept chugging along. The faster Athlon and the eMachine locked up sometime during the first night. They completely quit responding, and had to be rebooted. I did leave the Athlon running an extra day, but Vue showed no progress, and the drive light never flashed. Also, the cursor never responded. My 29 faerie scene was created in Poser 4 as two PZ3 files on the Toshiba. There were 15 faeries in one file and 14 faeries in the other file. That was all the Toshiba could handle in Poser 4, before getting too slow to bear. I started the scene on the Athlon 2600 system but as always, I could only get about 8 to 10 characters into Poser before that system got too slow. The files were imported into Vue 4 to render, on the Toshiba. So I guess the long moral is that RAM is not all that counts. Also, each system has a fixed 2GB swap file created after defragmentation. Sorry for the long boring post, but I do not have a life. ;-)