I upgraded this afternoon. It took a little over an hour to get everything configured. I needed new drivers for my video card, sound card and modem. Fortunately I had downloaded them the night before and had them ready. My first test was to bring Vicky2 and Mike2 with the hi-res Daz textures and bumps into a scene with Magnet's Emmanuelle with bumps and Asia again with full resolution textures and bumps. It rendered it all in about 30 seconds. I repeated the process 3 times with the same results. Considering that the machine would lock up after about 3 renders with just the Vicky2 texture, I would say the operation was a success. Now if I could just get High Heat Baseball 2002 to work.....