Hey all :)

I thought I would put these times here, just as an FYI. I am running the CPU test on the new box we picked up to evaluate from some guys we know @ Maingear. I mention this because system speed has a lot of factors other than pure CPU.

Oh, and if this is one PC result to many, chalk it up to pride. Not only is this thing fast but it glows blue :)

Time:

Default Render time: 3:19 - that translates into 199 seconds - (avg of multiple runs)

Bucket size 128 Rendertime: 2:59 - that translates to 179 seconds (avg of multiple runs)

System:

CPU: P4 2.80G with HT

Memory: 1.0 gig "corsair" memory

OS: Windows XP, SP1, all updates applied. NO SPECIAL settings used. I run my system with all the UI "eye candy" turned on.

Resolution: 1600x1200x32 bits

Notes:

The system was not particularly clean, having been up for more than a week so there is some stuff running in the background.

Before hitting the render button, the system was using 388 meg of ram, during render it never paged to disk.

Poser only used 50% of my CPU during this render, as it is not HT aware. In effect I have a dual CPU system here and Poser couldn't use one of them. This may explain why background tasks and UI had no impact on speed.