**pjz99, I'm going to be buying a hard drive in a few months, will use the new one and put a clean install on there, see if that helps.. too much stuff on this drive to think about doing it now.  Thanks for your help.

Prikshatk, wow, breakthrough, in CPU Benchmark rendering (1 CPU) it acts like it acts with poser, both cores try but its about 50% overall usage... however on on Rendering (x CPU) it maxes out BOTH cores!

So I know my CPU is capable of maxing on renders, its just having a problem with poser...**