Quote - that still doesnt make any difference to the render time
when the shops are open monday im goin 4 a cheap stop watch and and experiment with further setting adjustments and race my 3 machines againsnt each other- the new one a quad core, a dual core and a amdathlon

Very interesting. I recently picked up a quad core also. I run Poser 7 on a G5 2.33 dual core Mac, and was wondering if I should pick up Poser 7 for it. I currently use Poser 6 on the quad core, and my dual core Mac seems to render just as fast as the quad core pc. I'm not comparing apples to apples though, using Poser 6 on the Quad and Poser 7 on the mac. I'd be intertested in your findings.