seriously for rendering purposes Intel seems to have upper hand. just search for reviews, and ull find even lo intel quads are better in this than PII 940. But when it comes to gaming and some other banchs, 940 even competes with i7.
ANd get an nvidia card as it has better support by the rendering softwares. ATI is good only in case of gaming or HD.
go for one with lots of VRAM, like GTS 250 1GB.
Thats what I have been trying to say over the past few days....
But people seem to misunderstand me.....
I didn't say AMD is rubbish but it is good only for gaming which concerns me very little since the games i play runs even on my old p4 1.7 Ghz machine. My work mainly concerns handling large databases,manipulating them and doing some serious number crunching with them. And in this case , I have seen myself that Intel performs better.
I have done some Image processing in the past, and there also Intel seems to have an upper hand, so thats why I recommended Intel to girish.......
Others may have different views.
I am just giving my opinion.