I just want to share my experience. I was on the payment plan for future releases of Vue back when e-on/Bentley went through their little phase. Waiting for quarter after quarter for next year release of Vue was ridiculous. Let's not overlook the fact that these people funded the transition to the new subscription service off the backs of those who were waiting for the next year of upgrading. When I reached the end of my payment plan, they kept taking money out of my account. Was going through a lot then and didn't notice at first. When I did the math, they had taken something like a half a year more payments than they should've. They didn't want to refund the money, so I had to threaten social embarrassment online to get them to budge. On top of it all, the JA in charge over there denied he had anything to do with E-on, which was a straight up lie I caught him in. Then, when they finally coughed up the refund, they told me not to tell anyone--for obvious reasons.

If you paid many months into something for no good reason, only to be given one month of subscription under the new plan, you need to go back, do the math and demand they give you a straight dollar for dollar conversion or take them to court. Just saying.

I don't rent software anymore. Microsoft, E-on, and others are sniffing all the cash that Adobe is pulling in and they want some of the action. If we don't stop them now, they will have us by the curly hairs. Refuse to pay to rent software. It's the only hope we have. Solidarity!

I'm sorry. I grimace every time I see someone suggest that anyone buy anything less than a card that ends in -80 for rendering. For a few dollars more, you can get a real powerhouse rather than something the manufacturer crippled to sell at a lower price point. Sure, get a -70 if you like to pay hundreds of dollars for less than optimum performance, but if you are going to spend that kind of money--you really want something that ends in -80, the more CUDA cores the better. Go look at the benchmarks on the Daz forums. I can verify what others have said about that series of cards, especially when coupled with another card.