Though my personal preference for the underdog has traditionally pushed me in ATI's favour, I've lately really come round to appreciate NVidia cards. They're more regularly faster then ATI's but the biggest thing is that their drivers are just plain better! ATI drivers are notoriously underdeveloped in comparison to NVidia drivers. Also I've been using an NVidia QuadroFX at the studio and its just plain blazing along! And the new NVidia GeForce in our gaming pc at the studio is working absolute miracles also, not to mention their budget cards are fast and cheap and often stable enough to do some significant overclocking.

I do have one question thou, considering that you're running a pentium 4 system, does your motherboard have an AGP slot or also PCI-Express?
If you dont need gaming power i'd go with a low to mid-range affordable NVidia card, it'll last you a good few years if you're not an avid gamer, and the price/performance value is great :-)

On the topic of videocards.. anyone know anything about Nvidia Tesla cards? Does Bryce take advantage of them? It's a vid-card that can also be adressed as if its a CPU, and it supposedly packs 128 cores and 500Gigaflops of calculating power for just $1500? I'm highly interested but i cant find anywhere if its CPU-like behaviour requires specific programming or if it really just looks like cpu to your software and will work automatically...

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