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In this movie, what we're going to be discussing is system requirements for ZBrush, and what's the big advantage of having more RAM, more video speed and whatnot. I've been working for ZBrush for quite some time now, and I'm going to be giving you my personal opinion. Now, what's on the box is what's on the box as far as system requirements. You're free to follow that, whatever you want. I work in the lab. It has about 20 computers and they all have ZBrush on it, and I also work at home, and my home computer actually has a little bit more horsepower than my computers at work. Throughout the whole of all the computers that I've seen that run ZBrush, the one most important thing in ZBrush is system RAM. System RAM is the most important. Video card, on the other hand, you know, it's one of those things, you know, a Geforce Nvidia plays a long way, and I would recommend something with DirectX, in the nowadays era, it would be DirectX 9 or 10, 10 being great. Now, system RAM, I have 2 gigs at work and 4 gigs here. Four gigs far outweighs the 2 gigs any day of the week, so as a beginner ZBrushing, I would say go for your 2 gigs. Check out your motherboard, however, and see how many slots you have for memory. If you have 4 slots in your computer for memory, fill two of them with 2 gigs of RAM, the other two can be filled in after you find that ZBrush rocks and you want to go to the 4 gigs mark. What you want to stay away from is having ZBrush do all the thinking while you're sitting there waiting because you'll end up doing that a lot. It's called compacting memory, and you'll know what I'm talking about here once we get on with the movies. A video card's not too important, as I said, but another thing that's really of a good advantage is having a fast hard drive. A lot of the stuff gets paged out to your hard drive all the time, even though you have 4 gigs of RAM, ZBrush uses that, but what it does is it uses hard drive a lot more than it does system RAM, sad to say, and some might say the other way around, but if you look it really does use a lot of hard drive space. So, a way to get around this is use SIS hard drives, or SATA hard drives. So, that's my recommendation for ZBrush as far as system requirements. Good memory, good hard drive, and you'll be very happy with it. Hyperthreading helps out, and if you don't know what hyperthreading is, Intel has hyperthreaded chips, and AMD both. Intel has actually quad where AMD does not. And I don't actually want to tag this movie with any kind of date, I'm just saying that hyperthread technology in ZBrush work hand-in-hand along with multiple core CPUs. So, if you hit Alt Control Delete on your keyboard, and go to Task Manager, and go to your processes and performance, your performance ratio actually shows two boxes here, you have a hyperthreaded machine, so not it's going to work pretty good with ZBrush, so that's another advantage. All right, in another movie we're going to discuss this a little bit further.