Ok.... I think I'm going to bite the bullet and upgrade my computer.   I think this thing is running on life support so before it goes totally caputs I would like to be able to salvage my hard drive contents!

Currently I have a Pentium 3, 1 gig processor with a Rage Fury Pro graphic card, 384 mb of SDRAM. As for the rest, I have no clue.

I want a computer that is more than what I need right now so that I grow into it and not have it be obsolete to my needs in 6 months time like the first computer I bought was.

Here is what I want I think I want:

1. Large hard drive. My current one is 40 gigs and I'm always struggling to get space. If it weren't for a 20 gig external drive I wouldn't even have room on my hard drive to defrag it.  I'm thinking 250 gig partitioned.

2. Lots of RAM. I don't know what the difference is between DDR and SDRAM. My laptop had 512 of DDR. My desktop has 384 of SDR.  I want enough to run Poser and some to spare so that I don't have to turn everything off while I have Poser open.

3. I want a graphic card that is capable of Open GL.

4. A fast processor. AMD models need not apply!! (Sorry, had a really bad experience with AMD on my first computer and after a year of total grief with it I changed to Pentium 3 and had no further problems and I'm gun shy from AMD  brand now)

5. A mother board that will support it all and allow me to upgrade memory and hard drive if I want to in the future.

6. Maybe a DVD Burner. Depends on price. I may have to just settle for keeping my old CD Burner for now.

7. No monitor.  I will have to stick with the one I have for the time being.

8. Anything else inside that a computer needs.

9. Power supply that will run it.

I don't know very much about computers. So before I call and have a sales guy at the computer store price something out to me based on his knowledge, I want to get some facts from you guys.

My budget is about $1200.00 maybe $1500.00.

Please tell me what I should be asking them to price out... models, brands whatever (Links to the item will help).  I just don't want to be dependent on a guy earning a commission who is trying to undersell me an  inflated priced package like the first sales guy did with my first computer.

If all goes as planned, I will have a new computer that is capable of running Poser, by the end of the month!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi