Maxwell is FAR too slow for folk who don't have 64 bit quad cores.
It's a hell of a lot faster on my new rig than on my old P4, for simple model renders outputs, nice 800x600 in 10 to 20 minutes (as shown above).
But....complex scenes can sure add up the render time to heck....

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