Should have mentioned the Motherboard. Haha!

Core I5 2500K, Socket 1155

Asustek P8Z68-V LE, Intel Z68 chipset

8 GB of DDR3 with two full expansion slots open. Plenty of room for more RAM.

Graphics is an AMD Radeon HD 6700 (my bad, I was sure it was a GFX card of some kind)

Windows 7 64 bit, Poser Pro 64 bit, and yes I'm running the 64 bit version of the Firefly rendering engine. I didn't even install the 32 bit Poser files, but I've verified that the system is calling the 64 bit version of Firefly when I'm rendering.

I was planning to upgrade to an I7 4770K, and probably 8 to 16 GB of more RAM. I figured that was a quick, and fairly cheap, upgrade that should provide a noticeably improvement. The odd part about the RAM is that it never seems to use more than 4 GB, even though I have 8 GB available. Even when the processor is maxed out rendering, it's still only using 4 GB.

I thought I'd tried Sreed, with no change, but I'll try that again. Thanks!

I hadn't thought of changing the texture size for Preview either. I had to dig some to find that setting, but I did find it and I'll try that too. Thank you!