To be honest keef i've not really noticed much difference, but at themoment i don't really have much spare time to do any max or maya.

However i did benchmark my computer when it had the fx 500...

HI,

I had a quadro fx 500 and it ran all the games that i wanted to play perfectly fine, including halflife 2. I recently upgraded to a quadro fx 1000 and that's even better, i can use 3ds max...