Garee I posted this on another thread, but I was glad to read that you had good experiences with ATI Radeon, I have a 1550 with 512 megs ram.  I was wondering if there would be a substantial diffirence if I upgraded my video card to the GEForce 8600 GT with 1 gig of ram.  If I can't see the difference it wouldn't be worth the money.  I have been happy with the Radeon, it has better looking graphics than any other card I've had before.  In games it renders reflections, smoke and other effects flawlessly.  In Poser I get full texture previews with transparencies.