FSB must have much to do with it. Mine is only 533MHz FSB (with 2.66GHz cpu), giving 209 secs. mountainmaster, on the other hand, has 800MHz FSB (with 3GHz cpu) which cuts it down to 176 secs. His cpu/FSB combo gives about 5% (84% cpu ratio as compared 89% render time ratio) increase over cpu only. Hmmmm... Makes me wish I could have afforded a dual Xeon mobo with 800MHz FSB. :) Finally, my numbers are from the time I clicked Render until the actual image was displayed - no changing of Poser settings. I did try increasing Poser's priority, killing background apps, and so on, but there was no increase in performance.

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