I am not impressed

[TSPCo]

What about the CPU? it is the best I have and could afford. If I could get someone to hire me for concept design jobs, then I could upgrade, but until then, as I have stated before, "I do this for fun,
not funds...yet"

[Fletch]

Keep going, then! If you can't afford a faster machine, that's fine.
You will either have to be patient and render with Easy 09 (I highly recommend this option for final images), or learn to tweak the render settings to get much faster.
Subject: Easy 1-7 Photon Mapping and Final Gather (Biased)

[TSPCo]

Patience is not one of my virtues, for now Easy 5 works for me, I use easy 3 most of the time, it is adequate. But I may have a gig doing a remodel concept design on a 1907 three story commercial, if that goes then I will go to bed earlier and let the computer work. BTW if I lived about 240 miles from here, I know of a guy that is running an I-9 intel, and has his own personal T1-line. (helps to know people for 40 years that work for the phone company)