Movida, Just a note... Poser runs fine on my Abit board with RAID hard drives (I have 2 30 GB in RAID-0). nu-be, it depends on the OS. With NT/2000/XP, generally the OS runs on 1 CPU and the applications on the second. I believe that with XP Server you can even specify what apps run on which CPU. Also, as I explained: RAID-0 is performance because the work load is split over 2 drives, effectively doubling the data rate. RAID-1 is for security. Once you are familiar with SCSI devices, the jumpers aren't that big of a deal. But they don't gain you enough of an advantage for the money you'd spend. As others have mentioned, IDE drives are much faster now then they used to be. 512 MB of RAM will work just fine, 1 GB only if you can afford it, and 2 GB is probably overkill. Brian