Quote - staigermanus - Wow! You've a beast of a machine! I'm envious.  My poor little box has a 2ghz Celeron with 256m of ram, not much virtual either and Windows XP. I uses B5.5 and/or B5 and both work fine to export from either the file menu or the terrain editor.

and it was brand new 2 months ago and like a car depreciates really quickly. It's fast and good alright but I want the Core 2 Duo now and I want an Nvidia chip on it or Ati, something with real opengl T&L. Intel 945 doesn't do that. I heard they're coming out with their own T&L capable opengl chip though.
BestBuy was selling this 'beast' about $1100, now I see better ones below $1000 even as low as $900. The 1.5 GB DDR2 memory is what's significant in price. It added $150 over the 512 MB config.

many systems are offered with 1 GB these days, I still prefer 1.5 or more. And don't keep your Virtual memory at the WIndows recommended level: set it to the Max, in case you ever need it. 4 GB on WInbdows XP I think is the max. 64-bit should be higher.