Thanks for the replies everyone.

@pixelrush
Thanks for the helpful diagram. I have a Corsair 620HX power supply unit so hopefully it will be good enough to power a GTX 460 or maybe a GTX 470. I know my Quadro FX 1500 doesn't need a separate power plug so I'm good there. My plan is to use the Quadro ...

I did a little research and found out that my Abit IP35 Pro motherboard supports ATI's crossfire but not nvidia's SLI. However I believe there may be a workaround to get two Nvidia cards on my particular motherboard. There is a catch in that I would only get x16 and x4 performance because of the way ...

Please keep us updated on your progress as it'll be interesting to see if Octane can handle the awesomeness that is this character model

What difference will an extra 1GB of ram in a graphics card make in Octane? I'm looking at the new MSI GTX 460 HAWK 1GB (which can be overclocked to GTX 470 performance levels), and the Palit GTX 460 2GB. In the case of the MSI HAWK, will overclocking make up for the ram difference?

The lack of a ...