A friend is looking to build a new graphics system, and I seem to recall that there is a site that will build them with rendering and 3d in mind... But I can not remember the NAME... Anyone know what I am trying to think of? Looking for intel, not mac. Thanks, Aeryk71

Hmmm... I just built my PC. Could've used such a thing myself. You say Intel, does that rule out a PC using an AMD chipset? such as the Athlon k7 set? Or do you just mean PC and not MAC? (I went with a 500mhz K7 on the Asus K7M motherboard (with built in sound to save one slot), with 256 pc133 Ram and a Leadtek Wintel DDR GeForce graphics card. I made my choice after a few weeks of comparing review sites from everywhere I could find. Choosing not to trust one single resource.

AMD might be ok. I'll have to check... Thanks for the info! Aeryk

The system that arcady has is sweet. Thats a great setup. I personally would go with the Intel PIII rather than the AMD K7. Each of the chips has its strengths and wesknesses. Im just personally a die hard Intel supporter. I would go with the GeForce card. and 256mb RAM. So basicaly what arcady has but I would have used the PIII. Oh motherboards. ASUS and A-Bit would be the only 2 I would consider. I like the ABits since they are jumperless. ASUS might have a jumperless board by now. I havent looked into the in 3-4 months. ;) But those are both great MB's to go with. Good luck! If you have any problems or questions post away. Clint

I recently built a system too, and went with an AMD Athlon 600. I am using a Microstar motherboard, which is great. Only 128mb RAM here for now, but with prices dropping, will be upping to 256 soon. I went with the Nvidia TNT2 chipset for my graphics card and am very pleased. However, with a little extra funds I probably would have gone with the GeForce chipset as well. Oh, an you gotta have a big hard drive! I went with 27 gig, and will eventually add a second one too one day! This graphics stuff can be very hogging of hard drive space.... HG... P.S. Clint and all, thanks for the advice on my Rapture scene. I am currently tweaking it and should have a revised version by the weekend....