Well... I was about to make you buy an ATI based graphic card, but for Odyssey, it looks like there is a problem... I've got a Rage 32 Magnum, and there is absolutely no problem... with vue3.1 ! I could agree, yet, that when ATI sales a new graphic card, you only have "beta" drivers... and must wait for final drivers... But, if you can wait for drivers, ATI graphic cards are really wonderfull !!! MotherBoard ? I'll suggest you Asus cards... but it's my point of view ! :-) CPU ? Well... I'll suggest you to take an Intel CPU for more stability... RAM ? As Varian said, the more you have, the more it is !!! But I'll suggest you 128 Mo or more, if you want to make real good work... maybe 256 if you planed to run your computer with winXP... Well, that's all...