I guess that the dancing man won't make much difference for larger renders, just for the short ones. 5 seconds is a lot of total render time is 44 seconds, but nobody will care about 5 seconds on a total of 440. I saw the harddisk light although I have 1GB, but that is not caused by swapping or anything like that. During rendering Poser writes the image to a temporary file on the harddisk and that is what you see. (In a performance log you will see that the harddisk activity is just writing) You could try one or more vicky figures with high res textures and large shadowmaps. It would focus the benchmark more on textures and less on polygones. I wouldn't use stephanie or mike since a lot of people won't have those figures. A lot of people do have vicky though. (which texture to use might be a problem. Is there a high res texture from free stuff?)