This is a very good question! Your Graphic-Card has no Influence whatsoever to the Render-Time.The best thing you can do for reducing the render-Time is to get the fastest CPU you can afford. That's where the rendering happens. Getting more Ram isn't wrong neither.It's faster to read & write to Ram instead to your Hard-Disk. Because when you have a very large and/or complex scene and you have enough real RAM that the computer doesn't have to swap to the hard drive (using virtual memory). The only real way to reduce render time is to reduce scene complexity The big killers for render time are: 1) highly complex textures 2) volumetric materials 3) lots of light objects(!) 4) highly detailed imported DXF/OBJ meshes etc. Hope this will help... (thank you Flickerstreak & Zottel1 4 the info) StarDust