Just a note I use a small owner owned company out of New York state to build my machines he is very good and very reasonable and answers all email himself and rated very highly by resellersratings.com. As I said he is a small outfit and is more than happy to help you pick out what you want or need as far as hardware and what you want in a machine and the budget you want to stay within. No pressure, no forcing you to take what you don't want and no pressure sales.
I have had my last two machine built by him a dual core and a quad core and the dual core is still running strong and the quad core is awesome.

My quad I use strictly for all my 3d work and the dual core is now my internet/email/downloading content machine. If you'd like I can PM you his information. As for me I have had terrible luck with the main computer builders such as Dell and the like.

I have an intel quad, 8 gigs of ram, vista 64, large hard drive, GeForce 9600GT 512MB with a 500 watt power supply which runs Vue 7, poser pro and my paint program without issue.

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