Another point about graphics cards and AGP: they only matter for realtime preview and manipulation of the objects in your scene. The final render still depends TOTALLY on the processor and for us to get realtime results like we do in renders would probably take a graphics card running at 50ghz or more - you won't see that any time soon. So it is back to the processor and the environment you like to work in. The key also is in letting dual or multi-processor boxes do their thing in the apps we like to use. Bryce still doesn't support dual processors (without lightning) on one box. Vue D'esprit does and I sincerely hope Bryce does soon too. My Vue renders are significantly faster when both processors are being used and suddenly I am using 189 percent of my CPUs on a render. Putting almost 2ghz on a task is very nice (as our Pentium friends already know) but putting two different processors on a task in even better. Multi-threading is where it's at. The wave of the future is not only faster processors, but more of them (and apps built to take advantage of this).