Thank you very much for your informative reply also,Nalates Urriah. You have given a lot to consider for my next PC purchase. Unfortunately the one I am using now is a laptop, so I cannot do much upgrading on it.I will probably choose the Inel i7 processor and Invidia graphics card. I will make sure I have the maximum speed and power needed before buying. I will keep in mind what you said, "Other games are more dependent on the graphics card than SL is.A big step up in graphics card doesn't give you a big step in SL performance.The memory, CPU, and graphics card combnation ALL affects SL's preformance. They all need to upgrade to really help performance."