First off, comparisons aren't necessarily meaningful unless everyone is rendering exactly the same scene. My first rendering of this came out at 2mins 10secs; then after some posing and camera adjustments (but nothing else) to more closely match gstorme's original render, it took 2mins 35secs. That's a big difference for some essentially minor adjustments. Making the render size exactly 1024 by 902 (and adjusting camera to suit) brought the time back down to 2mins 5secs. I'm running a PIII 500Mhz with 384Mb of RAM, on Win98SE. Poser render lengths turning out about the same on a 1Ghz PIII as a 1.7Ghz PIV sounds about right. The PIV has poorer floating point performance than a PIII (as well as some other deficiencies) that seriously count against it for rendering Poser files, even with more cycles per second on hand. The standard PIV is not suitable for dual configuration - you have to jump to the XEON for that. Poser makes no use of dual processing; and there is no way in hell that a dual 1.7Ghz XEON setup will render this scene in 6 seconds. More like 60. Graphics cards (AGP or PCI) will make no difference to the render time of this file. BTW gstorme, there are some potential problems with running WinME (any Win9x OS) with more than 512mbs of RAM. Try lowering from 768 to 512mbs and see if you get a speed improvement. It might not happen, but it could.