Quote - > Quote - Also, thanks to FSMCDesigns and BluEcho and others for the kind words.

BTW, for those curious about P6 versus P7 render times, render times for the image in the first post were as follows:

P6 Firefly --> 4 minutes and 7 seconds

P7 Firefly --> 2 minutes and 40 seconds. 

That's a little less than two-thirds the render time for P7.  Not too bad, especially for a machine without a dual or quad core...

I'm so glad you posted this, I've been wondering if it was worth buying P7 seeing as I don't have a multicore processor, now you've reassured me that it'll be more than worth it.

Ulp...  I hope my results transfer at least as well to your figures and your machine.  I'd feel bad if I led you astray and you didn't get the performance improvements I got.  Just so you know, my machine doesn't have a dual or quad core processor, but it IS a Dell Workstation class machine.  There may be other high end buses and caches and/or other hardware which make P7 work better than P6.  Apparently, it uses an Intel Xeon processor, though it is not the new Xeon D dual core processor.