If you're not doing reflections, you don't need raytracing, very rarely do you need texture filtering-- it can mess up a Vickie or mike texture pretty severly especially where the neck meets the head. Are you planning to print out posters that you render that large? I render between 1500 and 2000 pixels and, dependingon the complexity of the textures or props my renders take about 10 to 30 minutes. Much less now with my Dell laptop 3.5 processor. If I want them really fast with little possibility of crashes I grow the workscreen as huge as I can fit on my laptop-- pretty huge it's wide screen-- and render to screen. That's usually under 5 minutes. But I like a lot of props. Emily