Hi Terry - I'm glad to hear how that worked out for you as I'm in the process of building the same thing: Pentium 955extreme dual-core (3.46MHz), a RAID 1-0 dual SATA HD setup, same RAM but I'll be putting in a monster graphics card and , too, since - at SOME point, lol - I've got to actually play the games I've been buying and stacking up waiting for some tiny break in my fractalling. :-) I don't think the video card will matter much for most of what I do - fractals are static images and you don't care much about frame rate/throughput - but I think it might help for moving things around in big Photoshop windows(?) I notice my present rig has trouble refreshing the video when I've got something really big or with lots of layers open in UF but maybe that's just a system RAM thing(?)

Rick