Vue Infinite definitely likes a good OpenGL graphics card. Don't shell out money for the latest nVidia or ATI consumer cards, they're great with DirectX but the OpenGL performance is lacking. I bought an 7800GTX and frankly I regret the choice. The older 6800LE in my other desktop could be tweaked into a QuadroFX and performs twice as fast under OpenGL as the far more expensive 7800GTX.

For Vue Infinite you definitely want a dual core CPU. And you will definitely want an AMD. The best Vue performance I've ever seen was on dual Opteron dual core, second best are the Athlon64x2 machines, after them come the higher end Intel dual cores. The lower end Intel dual cores are about as fast as a single core Athlon64.

If you have the budget, I'd recommend the following components:

Mainboard: MSI or ASUS with nForce4 chipset
CPU: Athlon64x2
Graphics card: 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200 PCI-e
Disks: WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA for OS, if you can afford it, a second WD Raptor 10,000 RPM for applications, and a large SATA2 disk 7200 RPM for storage
Memory: 4 x 1 GB DDR400 or DDR2 533 - depends on the mainboard and the price which one is best for you. DDR2 533 is not faster than DDR 400. DDR2 667 will be faster, but few mainboards/chipsets support it - and it will be way more expensive than DDR400 or DDR2 533.
An important advantage of DDR2 is that the modules will be available in larger sizes - I've already seen 2 GB modules (which would mean a maximum of 8 GB of RAM). Still far too expensive to be of any use now, but I expect prices will go down in the near future. And with the rise of the 64bit operating systems you can put that memory to good use.
Optical: NEC Dual Layer DVD burner. Again, dual layer recordable DVDs are still way too expensive, but the prices are already coming down. In a few months the cost per gigabyte of dual layer DVD recordables will probably dip under the cost per gigabyte of the current standard DVD recordables.
A GOOD power supply unit, at least 450 W. Zalman, Papst, Fortron are some good brands.
A decent solid case. Antec, Zalman, Chieftec, Coolermaster.

The components above won't be cheap. I estimate it'll be around $2500. But it'll be VERY fast. And you can run a 64bit operating system on it -  the next version of Vue will be 64bit. A system like this will last you a couple of years.

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