Quote - if you want high quality fast, then you'd invest in a bunch of high-end video-cards and start running Octane (comes at a price too). On my machine, Octane runs about 50 times faster than Lux (2.0 MS/p vs 40 kS/p).

(Octane on dual GFX770-OC/4Gb, Lux on CPU i7-990X-OC (6-core)).
Published this http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2465942 yesterday, took 15 mins to render out.

 

BTW, longer rendering = having your shutter open for a longer time = more light. But I'm not that sure that too much specularity gives noise, I understood it produced fireflies. Nevertheless, still learning as well.

I have heard and seen alot of good stuff about octane(RGUS uses it and lordy what comes out of itO.O) BUT with that said, I have sank a fair amount in software recently not really wishing to do that again for a program I am not going to bother with in the long run. Beasty(my puter...yes I have a pet name for it) runs nicely, I get what I need from it at a really good clip.  Reality doesnt run speedy quick on it but its not as slow as I have heard some talk. Its just too slow for my needs.:S  I have gotten a job request one night and they want the finished work by the next evening...I cant pull that from reality.

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