:lol:  at the specs... they look sexy..i want one of these..can use them in the 35 deg C heat we have now.

so you actually saying..that a better end machine with a wonderfull v card woud do a bit of the trick..though if we over enthu..we still end up for a crash....

I seem to keep pushing my laptop to the edge when i render to disc... and a skype call can actually crash my whole system.. blooey if it is 30% overnite... and you have to restart the render again.

btw..have you ever looked at a partially done render to disc?.. ie..when the system crashes inthe midle of a render and you dare open the tiff/bmp/psd file.. Makes for a really good fine art pix.. partially done image on the top..and a whole bunch of lines going downwards like a barcode. makes me wonder... how does it render? I've always read it as row1 coumn1-10 .. so why the barcode streaks?