Yep...and the more memory the better. I currently have 512meg of ram, PC2100, and it isn't enough to run Poser adequately.... The hard drive is screaming most of the time with the high res graphics. I moved from Win98SE to XP because I could NEVER get Poser to render a high res character. Since I upgraded to Win XP Home, I have never had a problem with rendering..I've had 8 Vic2 and Mike 2 characters, fully decked out and was still able to get it rendered---the hard drive is doing a lot of the work...therefore i would get a minimum of 1024meg ram.... Poser is CPU and memory hog---faster the better. All the bs of how AMD cpu have problems and compatibility issues are hogwash. I've run both and now run an AMD XP1800+ with absolutely NO PROBLEMS. There were some issues with the early AMD chips, but that was several years ago. Its an ongoing myth to fuel the Intel/AMD debate. Be very careful when selecting components. The post that talked about all the different versions of hardware...video cards, hard drives, memory, sound, etc is right on....plus the performance can vary by manufacturer as well....do plenty of homework. I've contacted numerous repair/home brew stores around here, and a lot of these guys try to sell uninformed buyers whatever they happen to have on their shelves just to get rid of it...much of this stuff is out of date, and they sell it and talk about it like its the greatest and fastest...be careful. Check out the following: http://www.anandtech.com/ http://www.tomshardware.com/ and of course the previously mentioned Maximum PC. Check the prices of components here: http://www.newegg.com These will probably be lower than your store, but it will give you an idea of what you should be paying.... Also...www.pricewatch.com Checking these prices will save you from getting ripped off. Oh...AMD processors are considerably cheaper than Intel...usually by $100 or more dollars, depending on speed, etc.... the K6 is old news...you should be able to get the XP for pretty much same price...faster then Intel P4

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