Was away for a couple of days (on some island in the south china sea).

Anyways. Thanks for the reply. I noticed the links aren't very obvious. The simplymaya.com webstyle doesn't show links very well.

Too bad the software rendering will result in better quality renderings than hardware on a quadro card of my budget. I was hoping the extra cash I'll put into buying such card would especially improve my renderings.
I could have considered buying a similar, but cheaper, ATI FireGL card if they didn't show so much trouble in qualified hardware chart
https://download.autodesk.com/us/maya...sion2_win.html
I've been using low-end and onboard GeForce graphics cards/chips most of my life. But they allways give me a hard time whenever I install a new version of maya. The comon GUI update problems with GeForce is only solved by upgrading, or sometimes even downdgrading, GeForce drivers. But because my recently bought computer has a crap Intel graphics chip and really gives me problems I can't work with, I've decided to try a workstation card. An FX 1700 it will be.
Thanks for your help and technical insight.