Impressive. Straight out of the box P5, with SR-3 installed to deal with the InterLok nonsense. From clicking on the icon to active workspace, 8 seconds. A test render of Hires Judy Nude, using Firefly in default production mode, and default light set. Each shadow map took only 1 to 3 seconds, and the render phase took less than 15 seconds (as a contrast, VuePro goes from icon click to active workspace is 8 seconds) This is on an Athlon 64-3000+ (only 512k of L2) on a Gigabyte K8VNXP mobo with 1 gig of Kingston ValueRam (currently letting the new box run a dynamic cloth test; we'll see how that one times out) This hardware may just be the horsepower that Poser 5 has been needing....

The 120 frame dynamics test took 2 minutes (Judy and the summer dress, with a windforce field blowing it against her; field settings were force 50, and range 50). That includes the 10 draping frames.... So far stable as a rock.

Sounds good. Keep up the reports.

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Could you be induced to run Jim Burton's Poser 5 CPU test with default Firefly settings to see how much faster your render times are? See link above for requisite .pz3 file. Thanks. I've been wondering about the 64 chip and Poser since a (non-Poser-user) friend upgraded to a 2.8 64 and successfully overclocked it!

Thanks so much. I've been speculating that a single 64 chip may just be faster than a dual motherboard athelon setup. Granted Poser does not use dual processor, it would be fast on a dualie because the other multitasking apps can run on one chip while poser hogs the other, but the calculation speed of the 64 chip is phenominal. So, glad to hear this. I'm inclined to upgrade in a few months and have to make the big decision of dual or 64.

Thanks for reminding me about the test file Jim posted! Spun and run, here's the render.... I missed a few seconds, but the render time is between 170 and =no more= than 180 seconds. Once I get a stopwatch proggie for my pda, I'll do a little more scientific render... But damn! That extra memory bandwidth really shows...particularly when you consider that the chip is actually clocking at 2.0 ghz.....

I've been running an AMD64 FX51 with 2gb ECC DRR since Christmas. You want a racecar? This is it. I'll download that file and whack it through my system tonight I think...

System: AMD64 FX51, 2gb ECC DDR, tons of HDD, large swapfile, WinXP Pro. A few things running in the background (Antivirus, Firewall, Clock, Networking), GF4 Ti4800 128mb RAM. Result? I rendered Jim Burton's file 3x 142 seconds 138 seconds 141 seconds Lets call it 140 seconds total. I could probably get it faster, but that's pretty darn good to me :) Silke

I like to see somebody with a new Mac G5 run the test, I've heard some stories about how fast they are supposed to be...

after reading this forum and needing a new PC ,i purchased an Athlon 64 3400 ,with 1.5 gigs of RAM and 2 74gig Raptors in a raid zero config.XP pro installed. i rendered Jim Burton's test file in default Firefly mode in 78 seconds !!