40 hours and I'm only 53% through with this render. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong that would cause it to take so long. I'm only using the basic anti aliasing. Or is this just average? At the rate its going it will take another 48 hours to complete. It's enough to make me pull out my hair!!! The image itself is not that complicated, it has a few lights, and some water terrains in it, and a few plants but nothing like I've seen some of you all do. I love my new little hobby so much, but I swear the rendering time will make me quit, it's so frustrating to me. All of you have helped me out alot with your tips on post final rendering. But it seems like everytime I think I'm done and say OK this is the final render, I find something I want to change and I just cringe at thinking I have to start it over. /sigh Oh and My PC is a 2800+ AMD processor with 512 DDR ram. Would another stick of ram speed it up? My husband is a computer guru and says it would but I would think it was all processor based.