My daughter is using a PC I built about 3 years ago to run after effect cs3.
PC specs.
Abit AV8 Motherboard
AMD 64 +4400 CPU
3 gigs OCZ DDR ram
256 MB video card
650w Power Supply
3 - 500gb hard drives

My daughter tells me that this box will run Photoshop cs3, InDesign cs3 or
dreamweaver cs3 flawlessly, but bogs down using after effects cs3 (dosn't
crash, just slows).
So, I'm thinking about building her a new machine... Looking for any success
stories. In particular MB, CPU, Ram combinations. And in a machine designed
to run After Effects is a powerful 3-D video card (gamer quality) important?

Please, both happy and sad stories will be appreciated.

Jeff