Thank you Velociround - I appreciate the welcome and the good information. I will give it a shot the way it is, it was very powerful when I purchased it and it is my dedicated gaming computer now. I see that as I get into racing here, I will need more, but it sounds like it should run it for now. thanks so much for your help!

OK - Question about my system, I want to try this. My computer is old. It is; Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2, Intel Pentium(R) 4, 1.4 GHz, 256MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce3, 111GB drive with 95.2GB of freespace. I also will need to put a wireless card in it for internet access. I currently run EA Sports F1 2001 without any problem, but this sounds like a lot more intense. What do you think?