Quote - From your description, memory on the card is very likely a factor.  There are some 8xxx cards with 640 or more MB of display memory, what have you got at home?

 

of course it is :)
We're talking about a difference of Nvidia 6800GS to a dual Nvidia Quadros, 5000 series on my CAD station at the office. 
On this computer (my secondary work machine), which I use while the other one is cruncing work related things (love the kvm switches :D ), with Nvidia 7800 the amount of triangles I can handle at once is larger then at home.

What I was getting at is that I didn't create a 'hobby' scene yet to exceed the abilities of my home machine, and I tend to use hi Polygon scenes.

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