In the past days I deserted the gallery, so I excuse myself for having not left any comments as I usually do... but... MY NEW PC ARRIVED! :) So, I'm here trying to configure everything from scratch... and it's wonderful, people, now I see your images sooooo BIIIIIG! :-) And I did a quick test render with premium settings... whoa! A ligthning bolt! I jumped on my seat, because I jumped from PII300 128RAM to AthlonXP2400 with 512... Ok. I'll stop rambling right now. I just wanted to brag a little :-) LOL See you very soon in the galleries... :) Stefano

Congratulations with your new computer Stefano. It is nice to you see back and in such a happy spirit. See you soon! W&M

Thats quite a big jump. Good luck with the new machine! :)

that's cool Stefano! I'm saving up for now... hopefully by the end of the summer I'll be jumping too :) Now I bet, you'll be all over the place :)

Great man! I've never had memory problems with my 1600/512. You have to keep up with the updates though. About a month ago, my modem started booting me off the net. I'd emailed the company who made the modem (Lucent)- strangely enough, they had sold their interest to another company who denied that they made modems. MS finally offered an update to the modem driver after my emailing them several error reports. Curiously, the driver update was made by the company that bought rights to the Lucent modem.

Great news Stefano. If I send you the bottom half of my latest pic, could you render it for me? It's going to take me all week to do it myself :-) Glad you're having fun.

Hehe, glad you're happy DC. That is quite a jump. Hopefully one day I may make an even bigger jump when I move on from my p3 450.

Just the time to drop by again between installations... thanx to everybody who gave me advice a while ago while I was choosing the hardware. It was a good choice and a good help. :) S.

LOL, "Cruisin"! Dontcha love it. side note: Stefanos' gallery just increased by 200%

Oh boy, are you going to notice a difference. Happy computing,DC.

Bigger, faster, better. Oh there is nothing like a faster computer to ease your render times. I should know at xmas I upgraded to a Athlon 1.8GHz and last week I finally got to 1Gb RAM and a new GeForce 4 MX440 graphics card. It has made such a difference to render times. So glad to see you happy Stefano, enjoy your new toy. Cheers Cat

hate to spoil the it's gonna render so fast glow, but i have found that one's complexity of image and lighting and premium effects grag you back to the render while sleeping timeframes (grin) just think of the speed like money, your bills always expand to fit the amount of extra cash you may have! Congrats regardless!

Oh come on Incarnadine, you must know the joyful exhuberence a new pc is greeted with, and after spending lots and lots of money on a new toy you've got to convince yourself and everyone else that it's worth it. So a 2 second reduction in render time of a 20 hour image is absolutely fantastic...........LOL 8) Cat

Yeh thought you'd gone missing, I can usually rely on you for a comment or two. Hopefully now you will be churning out images like nobodies businees, can't wait!