Been lurking for some time because I need a new computer and have no idea what to look for. My brother has promised to build me one and got stuck with something so now I'm looking commercial. Running Poser 6, Bryce, Vue Infinite, Photoshop, Deep Paint and P3dO. Right now I have 1 gig ram and a 64 mg video card. I watch screen redraw. Didn't have this when doing web graphics but now I'm doing textures and trying to jump back and forth between programs and I often see portions of Photoshop and Poser overlayed on each other and am generally going crazy. I want to have Poser, P3dO, Photoshop all open at the same time. Very difficult and everything takes forever to do. I wait and wait and wait and forget rendering anything more than one figure at a time. I haven't got enough time left on earth to do that. And render in Vue? Ha! I don't care how noisy the thing is. I have ringing in the ears and live near a highway. My concern is keeping the dog hair out of it. Need motherboard that will support two hard drives. One fast for system and one massive for graphics. Got the new Dell wide 24 inch flat screen monitor as a gift and have never been able to use it with this system because my graphic card won't support the resolution necessary. So it's time. So who do I give my credit card to and go into debt for the next ten years? Anybody who can guide greatly appreciated. If this is too much trouble, just a link would be helpful. Thanks!!!