Ok, my turn AMD ATHLON 1.4+ 1 GHZ RAM 60 GB MAXTOR HDD LG CDRW LG DVD Drive 21" SGI Monitor 64 MB DDR ATI Radeon 7500 LOGITECH TRACK BALL MOUSE regular keyboard have win 2k/linux redhat installed. Run Maya 4.5 on windows. system has more than enough power. Also have another two systems networked to handle all the rendering I need. AMD Duron 800 and AMD 500. give my system a 10/10 . I would give it 11/10 if I had DDR memory on the mother board and a dual proc..