Quote - I keep seeing comments to the effect that "most" people don't use Firefly as their main renderer, and I started looking at the alternatives. Octane looks nice, but I'd have to beef up my hardware to handle it, and I'm not sure if I want to give up SSS and displacements for faster rendering.

Octane DOES have SSS.  No displacement, but you can make skin like in Poser, if you know the node setup to do it.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.