Quote - Octane uses OpenGL, and runs best on nVidia cards, but Lux uses OpenCL and prefers AMD cards.

Mother pus bucket.  So much for that idea.

I'm not switching to ATI or AMD.  I've never used anything but nVidia.

Thanks for the tip.  Much appreciated.  I'm not in the habit of needlessly wasting money, so I've canceled my order.

Quote - Cycles is a great rendering engine, but at least in 2.70 the gpu renderer won't do SSS, so images with a decent skin shader need to be rendered on the cpu at the moment.

Another great tip, thanks.  I love SSS to much to give that up.

I'll just remain content with CPU-based rendering.  It's much less of a headache to understand, and less expensive.  At least I've got a powerhouse of a CPU.