[citation][nom]Cons29[/nom]i gave Maya a try before, fun, but needs time to learn. and yes it takes long to render a realistic scene, add that to my not-so-good settings being a noob and all this is good news. so are there 3d modeling applications that makes use of the gpu? maya/3ds?[/citation]
as far as i know of it ,no 3d apps make use of teh gpu past rendering teh basic view port , this is because when go to "render" a scene it appliies all the mapping technologies with teh cpu becuase a lot of those technologies can not be done on a video card (which uses rasterization) namely ray tracing , photometric lights, and ray traced shadows, by the time any of tehse tecnologies are doable by a video card ,they will likely have newer technologies that can't be rendered by a video card