Had an Athlon 1800XP with 512mb of DDR 2700 RAM and a GeForce4 TI 4600 built at CompUSA last week. Oh My! Takes me about half the time to render as it took on my Dell 8000 Inspiron laptop with a P3 800 with 512mb SDRAM and a GeForce2M. CompUSA has very reasonable prices (I think) and a nice warranty on their custom built systems. The one above ran me about 1700 bucks with WinXP Professional (very nice OS so far). The case is the same as what Alienware uses. Scotty, I need more power!