hi all, i hate to butt into your thread, but does any of this apply to final rendering from the render room? my system works lighting fast until i have to do a render with all the best settings (maybe i have overset, but i don't understand half of them (i mean is that photon torpedos there?). For example the job i am working on now:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2709371
that render took about 10 minutes at very low settings. I then made some edits to fix things, added some fog, cranked up the quality settings in the render room, fired a photon torpedo, and now the render is taking 9+ hours!!! albiet it looks a lot better.  my pc has been pegged at 100% all day. here is what the ms performance tab looks like, but i have never understood this panel:
 Totals                                        Physical Memory (K)
     Handles                       14481           Total                      2095848
     Threads                          619          Available                  1059920
     Processes                         62          System Cache               1168052

     Commit Charge (K)                             Kernel Memory (K)
     Total                      1535280            Total                       186948
     Limit                      4137740            Paged                       130456
     Peak                       2264776            Nonpaged                      56492

i have a nvidea 6600 GF with 128. i know its not much, but it does everything else just great! But if it would help this situation, i think i can get something better. or maybe i should just move to the macbook pro...dunno...thanks for listening!