I don't know anything about PPP, but I've noticed Poser performs better using just raw CPU power. I've conducted an in-house benchmark using Poser4 with Vicky2 I've run Poser on a 266, 500, 700 and 1.2 all with 64 MB and the 1.2 Gig outperformed the 266, 500, 700, & 733. The loading time increases about an average of 8 seconds with each processor speed. It took the 500 about 52 seconds to load. on the 1.2 it took a mere 14 seconds. Also to my knowlege of Poser, poser doesnt care what video board you have, I have also done tests on this, I don't think you'll get your money worth in poser if you buy that GeForce2 or 3... 500MHz with 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP /w 16 MB and a WD 512KB ISA had the same speep performance in poser. Win98 SE was the OS, used in the tests. My conclusion testing RAM vs CPU in poser. Go for the CPU speed. I agree that that even a 200MHz upgrade is good. Running poser on a 700 is a lot better then running on a 500. Heck since ram is dirt cheap while you upgrade your processer buy a few hundred megs to go with it... This was just my $0.03 I hope I was a little informative