PROCESSOR Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5060 3.20GHz, 2 X 2MB L2,1066 
2ND PROCESSOR Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5060 3.20GHz, 2 X 2MB L2,1066 
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Professional, SP2 with Media 
GRAPHICS CARD 128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 285, Dual VGA Capable 
MEMORY 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 533MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS) 
OPTICAL DRIVE 48XCDRW AND 16XDVD+/-RW, w/Cyberlink PowerDVD™ and Roxio Creator™ 
RAID CONFIGURATION C1 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 1 or 2 drive total configuration 
HARD DRIVE 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™ 
HARD DRIVE INTERNAL CONTROLLER SATA/SAS Integrated Card - For Connecting Internal Hard Drives 
MONITOR Dell 17 inch UltraSharp™ 1707FP Flat Panel, adjustable stand, VGA/DVI 
SOUND Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1 
KEYBOARD USB Entry Quietkey, No Hot Keys 
MOUSE Dell USB 2-Button Optical Mouse with Scroll 
SPEAKERS Dell AS501 Sound Bar for all UltraSharp Flat Panel Displays 
ANTI-VIRUS & SECURITY Norton SystemWorks 2006 
RESOURCE CD  Resource CD - contains Diagnostics and Drivers 
SERVICE & SUPPORT PLAN 3 Year On-site Economy Plan 

its easy to spend money on these things isnt it?

I'll probably go ahead and get the above and add 3 more 500 gb drives to it for this vid editing stuff.  Do you realize, it took over 800 gb of files for dvd #2?  and that was after compression on some of it 

I do see that the tech is due out nov 2...but a program would probably have to be written for it and that'd take a while.  I sincerely doubt that 6.1 will catch the new tech.  However, Im sure it will soon because the #1 complaint about Bryce is render speed and using this multi-core stuff may be the answer.  I mean, that one post said a 1st pass was reduced from 7 hours 12 minutes to 12 minutes...at that rate, a computer will be done rendering it before you've even made the scene ...heh

 

thanx all

the more info the better. It'll not only help me in my decision, but others who have been holding back on buying a computer as well.

BT