NP at all.. glad to be of help. Did you just get a new system as well?

(BTW, I'd read it's best to have a little more power available then you actually need. That's why I went with the 500 watt as opposed to the 450 watt. The price difference? $6!)

The ati x1950 pro recommends 450 watts minimum. Might wanna rethink only 450 just in case.

(Plus the 500 watt one comes with a internal blue LED... COOOL! Now you can have a L33T system just like th ekids these days.. LOL!)

Yes, I've just gotten a new HP system also.  Mine's an Intel Core 2 Duo.

And of course -- I've started upgrading it immediately after purchase.  I figure that the next step will be increasing the RAM from 2G to 4G.  And then I'll need to add an extra hard drive or two.

Currently, I've got a new 22" LCD Widescreen monitor, plus an older 19" flatscreen CRT monitor that I"m using as a secondary.  Of course, I'll need to get another LCD to replace the CRT VGA............

.......it's all good.

An internal blue LED, eh...........?

Sounds like a good system. It it comes with a big hd, I'd just stick with it for now, and concentrate on things like the video card, and memory (though I'm sticking with 2 gig for now, to see how well i does as it is.)

Mine seems to be OK with 2G.  But I haven't had it long enough to really put it through its paces yet.  I've been quite busy over the last several weeks.  My new system sat in its box for a week, unopened, before I had a chance to get it set up.  I haven't even installed Lightwave 9 or AutoCad 2007.1 on it yet.  Perhaps I'll find the time to do those things over this weekend.

But I do have Poser, Vue, Photoshop, and Bryce installed (so far).  It flies.  Especially over my old P4 system.

My old PC is now semi-retired to file server status.  Perhaps I'll set it up for use as a rendercow for Vue.