My PC is a sleeper really the only thing that takes time on it is Cloth and hair. Well My advise on the vedio card is this: Use for Modeling, games, and DvDs I would got ATI Radeon 9600+. For raw power and just modeling the new Nnida cards, or no lower then a TI 4600(what I use only mine is from MSI and I have oCed it.) Get that and you will be fine I have a Intel Celron 900 OCed at 1.2gigs and only 524MB ram.