Thanks a lot for the tips man. I saw an add of the ati firegl card in the 3-d world magazine. It had this high-res picture of a girl. (elvish like with white hair) which was one of charactes found in one of those Best of CG Artists books "Expose" and D'artiste

anyway, the model ATi V7100 seems to be the "Shin Akuma" out of all those powerful graphics cards, I can't afford to buy that one until i find a job when i graduate this year and then pay my student loans. Bummer :headbang:

But I'll definitelly make sure to delete history before i render. that's a good idea.