Those descriptions aren't very telling at all. Questions, Questions.

- Whats the budget?
- Are you rendering on that machine?
- Hopefully that's DDR3 and not DDR.

And those 2 processors aren't really comparable IMHO.

I'm not loving that ATI video card:

Check the Maya compatibility list. And it kinda irks me when these cards are marketed with the "1GB" buzz word to take attention away from the bit rate, 256MB min I say.