System: Q6600 b3 stepping, Abit A9Pro mainboard (Intel P965 chipset), 8 GB DDR2-800 at 5-5-5-15 timings, 2x 500 GB SATA-II drives Vista Ultimate 64 bit, installed on the first drive Poser 7 SR2.1 installed on the second drive No overclocking.

Running with 4 cores enabled:

4 threads: 1"13s
3 threads: 1"27s
2 threads: 1"51s
1 thread: 2"55s

Running with only 2 cores enabled:

4 threads: 1"39s
3 threads: 1"43s
2 threads: 1"50s
1 thread: 2"55s

Timed using the attached TimedRender python script, adapted from gwhicks TimedRenderCache script.

Remarkable results. The Q6600 is not the fastest CPU in the test, still the test results are the quickest by far. I suspect that the fact that Poser is installed on its own physical drive helps, and it confirms what has already been said: this test depends heavily on other factors than CPU, mainly on disk related factors.

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