Sorry to hear Plutom,

I understand what your getting at. Your in more need of an entirely new machine rather than an upgrade thats unlikely to happen due to age and of parts required. True enough, its nice just to even still be able to use an app like Poser, Daz Studio or Carrara working with those restrictions at hand.

Some of my friends can't even use a program like Daz Studio due to their not very old laptop not having a proper 3d accelerator video display chip, even if they do have 1-2gb of ram and a 2000mhz+ cpu. If your able to run one of those programs and still make a render, count yourself lucky ;) 

What I didn't mention was i'm running into those limitations due to a few factors: image size, amount of content being put into a scene, using real outdoor 3d terrain / landscape instead of photo backdrops, and both sunlight and indirect lighting. You only need to browse my gallery and see some of the notes i've written about some of the images to see what I'm getting at.

;)