For 90% of people, if money is an issue, their best value is to buy an older Mac Pro (perhaps a 2008 model, as I think it is probably the best bang for the buck right now) and upgrade the video board to a 5870.Half of his positive points for buying one of these systems revolved around video card related benefits!The cost to go to from an 8 core to a 12 core machine is pretty big vs. the few app