One more note about rendering. Your Video card does not dictate how fast you comp is going to render. You Vid card deals with the real-time active openGL/DirectDraw such as rotating your mesh etc... All of your rendering to AVI is done on the processor. (Please correct me if I am wrong!) But when I do my final render is lightwave, I use the screamer net on 3 machines in my workshop and I won't even see the scene until I am done. That is of course optional but it is faster. I have 2 400's and a dual 700 all rendering the same AVI. It is all processor once the rendering takes place so you can have the greatest video card in the world and it will not speed up your production rendering a bit.