Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for suggestions for a new PC. The final decision was a Dell P$ 1.3 G. The unamimous choice for video seemed to be the Nvidia G2 so that's what I got. Due to the expense of RIMM memory I could only afford 128M but its working okay so far. The suggestion of the 7200rpm disk vs 5400 has worked out and I'm happy! I did chicken out when it came to using an AMD processor. OH well. Overall I'm experiencing about a 10 times increase in performance over my 166 MMX. (Probably much faster when it comes to renders, but I didn't actually measure). On top of that Poser 4 actually seems stable on this machine. One of the neatest things was dealing with Dell. They did have a VERY competetive Price and it was possible to negotiate with them from their published prices. Delivery from dell was also amazing, 96 hours from placing the order to delivery in backwoods Ontario. Once again thank you to those who put there experiences down on the keyboard.

Discord, Is that you? Don't tell me your computer ran off again?

DSORD,I'm just about to take the plunge again. My current is a Dell and I am very happy. I did not see your original thread. Would you be kind enough to tell me about the hard drive speed topic and the memory. Also why 1.3 instead of 1.5g. I'd be interested in your comments about what I am looking at: 1.5g, 80g(5400rpm)drive, 64mb GeForce2 card, 384 PC800 RDRAM.(What is RIMM memory?) Tell me about your price negoiation. Thanks a lot. Pinto

1. 1.3 gig versus 1.5 gig was a budget decision. If you can afford it 1.5 is the way to go. It was suggested that I look at a 7200rpm hard drive and it is faster fiding reading and writing than mt old 5400. The way I use poser,particulairly during renders seems to require a lot of hard disk activity. Actually RDRAM fits into RIMM slots so RDRAM and Rimm are one in the same. A 64 M G2 should be really amazing when playing back AVI files. It sounds like you're after an real muscular PC. As far as price negotiations I phoned DELL canada when I was orderring and expressed disatisfaction that they would not give me the CD RW drive promotion and the GEforce 2 promotion. They would only allow me to take 1 of these. Then I complained about the $100 us shipping charge when I had only ordered the CPU and not the monitor and they then offered me a reduced deal on the Geforce promotion while allowing me to claim the CDrw promotion. Go for the 384PC800 ramm if you can afford it. I'm sure I'll end up there when I've saved a bit more money.