Ok, well here are the results from my desktop machine. They are quite a bit better than my notebook which isn't all that surprising even though my desktop has an older processor. I did find Poser very unstable when loading the test render PZ3 even though generally I have found it to be quite stable under XP 64-bit. I had to restart my desktop a few times because Poser would crash just afterloading the PZ3.

The most interesting thing was the fact that even though my desktop has a dual-core CPU, bumping the number of threads up to 4 improved the render time by 1 second. I have noticed that sometimes using 4 threads takes a bit longer to render but in this instance it saved me a whopping 1 second! :biggrin:

To keep things in perspective, my desktop has a SATA2 Seagate Baracuda hard drive running at 3GB/s bandwidth and my notebook still has a PATA hard drive.

04'41" - 1 thread - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core 6400+ Black Ed - 3200Mhz - 4Gig DDR2-800 - XP Pro 64-bit
03'07" - 2 threads - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core 6400+ Black Ed - 3200Mhz - 4Gig DDR2-800 - XP Pro 64-bit
03'06" - 4 threads - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core 6400+ Black Ed - 3200Mhz - 4Gig DDR2-800 - XP Pro 64-bit

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