A cheap solution for a whimpy PC

[Rabid pitbull]

Well not sure about specific render improvements, but it is very likelyto be noticable. More importantly you should upgrade the ram if you dont want the hd to die from excessive paging.

[Vertizor]

If you're running Windows XP, that 128 MB you already have is completely used up by the OS. You're pretty much paging ALL the time.
The cheapest/quickest/easiest fix is just to optimize you're scene and what you render. 30 mins. to render a single frame (if all you're doing is caustics) seems a little exaggerated. If you absolutely have to have caustics and fancy rendering features, tweak down the quality/accuracy until you're ready for a final render.

[Mathew Everett]

If you want a easy way out and have about 250.00 bucks you can go to http://pcontime.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc They are a company I have used before "They make very Nice products". They offer brand new systems for cheap prices... I think they have some amd setups with 3200+ 256 ran but for 30 or 40 bucks yuo can make that 512+ and than you can have a render machine. just set that to the side and render on that than you can have your LT to work with. if you use bucket rendering it can help to have 2 machines or even 3 machines if you have 500.00 to spend....If the money isn't there than this is just an idea......

[sepulker]

Wow, how can they afford to do that???

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