LOL, are you taking the p*ss? Bryce renders slowly. If you increase the speed of your processor-memory system, it will render faster. Big deal. It's still slow compared to most other programs out there. If you use one of those programs, like Cinema4D, you will also see an improvement with faster hardware. Render speeds for that program will go from fast to very fast. Bryce will still be relatively much slower. That's what people 'bitch' about; and when the new version renders slower than the old version for no beneficial reason, they 'bitch' even more. BTW, unless Bryce is writing to disk (virtual memory) because of large files, you won't speed up rendering by adding more RAM.