Good News (on off topic)

[zen.]

As a 3D dabbler, I concur. At least, not the cards you can buy down at Best Buy. Actual 3D rendering can only be assisted by CPU and RAM. If you want a graphics card to help you out, you'll have to buy one of the thousand-dollar 3D cards that they tend to use in SGI workstations and such, like 3Dlabs' (http://www.3dlabs.com/) Oxygen cards. I hear they're not very good for your standard 3D gaming, though...but I'm out of date. Anyone have direct experience with the professional cards?

Oh, and as an interesting side note, the Final Fantasy movie coming out soon has twice the resolution of HDTV, and each FRAME is 10MB in size. Yes, that means each SECOND of movie screen time takes up 240MB.

zen