Thanks for the tips guys.

1. Anthanasius and hborre, yeah I kinda figured those things would be top culprits, but I wanted to make sure they weren't the only ones.

2. Jim and Mark, my typical render is anywhere from 800x800 to 1200x1200 and I can still see render times of over an hour on something that small.

3. Mark, I remember reading a post that said adding extra bounces in itself doesn't add to the render times.  It's when you start doing things that the bounces will take time.

4. replicand and wimvdb, thanks for the tip, that's something I am going to test out and the kind of info I was hoping to get.  I mean when I was playing around with bucket size and shading rate, I never figured make sure everything comes out as a perfect square.  Usually I'm using a bucket size of 32 and a shading rate of .25.

WARK!

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