Im reading the contents of the reference manual for PP 2012.

I read in the render prefrences section to uncheck the seperate process and adjust the number of threads to a higher number. Which was at 4 threads. So I cranked it up to 18 and I noticed the rendering of a single image was much faster.

If your worried about Poser crashing. Earlier I posted a method that worked on my end to prevent poser from crashing was to open the

Windows Task Manager

• Go to View

• Update Speed

-Select High

More detail is explained here at the original posting

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2839293

I see no mention of Render Farms.

Is it in the Que Manager section?

I have 2 computers

the one im using now is a windows 7 64 bit

older one is a xp 32 bit 

Yes it is the Queue Manager function.

A good compromice is to set the threads In General preferences at the double of cores of your cpu.
As PhilC said; Queue Manager manages a render farm.

I have a quad core, and the speed gain that I get when I go from four to five threads is very, very small. When I switch to six threads, there is no speed gain any more. I would assume that you don't need much more threads than you have cores (virtual cores from hyperthreading included) to get full speed.

     Only some processors are HyperThreaded;  only these will benefit from using twice as many threads as you have cores.  The hyperthreads will only run at 2/3 to 3/4 the speed of the primary cores, so you won't double the render speed, but the gain is significant, about 167%-175%.

     One of my machines has a Core2 Quad core (not HyperThreaded);  it renders best at four threads.  Another machine has a core i7 quad (which is HyperThreaded);  it renders noticeably faster if set to eight threads.

For a quad set it at 4
1 time the cores.

For hyperthreaded quad set it at  7.
8 minus 1 . The 1 being for background process .

Seems to give the best results on most CPU / Systems