I did use crazybump, good call. I took the baked normal map from max into crazybump to increase the intensity of the map. In the end, I did overlay a small piece of the diffuse map that I converted to normal map to get some more detail from my normal. The 'xm8' logo section was converted into a normal map, then overlayed…
Thanks for all the great feedback guys. Kinda turned into a battle of the resolutions there for a sec. I ended up going with the 2048*1024 for now. I don't think it's too big, and I definitely agree w/ you Ghost - aiming for higher specs for a portfolio piece is a great way to "future proof" it, that way I'm not re-doing…