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Just got the specs for the new computer - seems like they are leaving me with XP (?!) and an ATI Radeon grahpics card...never used one of those before, always had NVidia.

 
If you´ll get XP you´re fortunate. All the 3D software i´ve tested have rendered faster with XP, and that´s compared to a stripped Vista system. 

ATI cards are normally better suited for graphics purposes, so you shouldn´t have any issues there.

Rudolf Herczog
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