My new system render plenty fast. I went with the AMD.

Would have built a quad socket, if it was possible at this time, that is without spending 100,00.00 bucks. :-)

In retrospect I would have been okay with 24 Gig of ram.

Asus Sabertooth 990 FX R2.0
AMD FX 8350 8 Core Socket 942 4.33 Ghz 8 Threads
32 Gig ddr3 Ram
NVidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5 Gig ram PCI Express
NVidia GeForce 8400 GS 512 MB ram PCI
Cache memory 8 Megs
Sata 7200, 1.5  TB
Sata 7200, 1.0  TB
Quad Samsung 27" Widescreens
3 Plextor SSD Drives
1 Western Digital 1.5  TB Drive
64 Bit Windows 7 Home Pro

 

Tom