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Steve, I think the benchmark chevy.3ds we have is fine – except resolution. These parameters were established long ago by the tech support guys at Adesk. To avoid problems with display cards it has always been said that the "no display" button should be active (same effect as rendering to NULL device). I suggested sometime ago to have mapping ON, then OFF just to eliminate or delineate differences in disk sub-systems and cache schemes. Because systems are getting faster and faster and times shorter, I suggest the benchmark be raised in resolution and times shown with/without mapping, no display, anti-aliasing ON, pixel size 1.1 (the shipping default). Somehow we need to keep the rendering time above 100 seconds in order to see at least whole percent speed differences.