Well, I've heard graphic cards-- beyond a GEforce 2 --dont help Poser. I do plan to use 4000 by 4000 hi-res textures and the figures that carry them, maybe more than one, maybe more than 2 in a scene. I would rather not, but textures keep going up an up in resolution, and even 3000 adds up. The PC comes with a 120Gig hard drive, I have an auxilary 120 Gig, but no appropriate firewire card to hook it to. I was planning on this machine being my Poser and Vue machine and my old machine at 1.2G mhz, 512RAM-- assuming it's survives it's latest meltdown-- would be my Photoshop machine. I have Poser on a 35G drive now and it's eating it like Ice Cream. But then again the old machine isn't running XP either. Not yet. My main complaints with it before the video card possibly died [I'm still waiting to hear the news] was that 512 was it's max in memory. And that's not enough. I don't want to be in that position again. On the other hand, it would be lovely to run MusicMatch with Poser. Emily