UPDATE:

Well, I've got my new system, although
I had to leave it in the box for a full
48 hours once I got it home, due to an
intense 'day-job' crisis. You can
imagine my frustration with that!

So here's my report on my first 24 hours....

Sys boots really fast.
Computer is loud. 2 Raptors plus four fans....loud.
But I expected that, and accept it.

Poser runs like lightening, as you might
expect. Very very responsive moving around
and changing rooms. That is what I wanted.
I did a render benchmark against my
other two PCs. To recap the new system:

AMD Athlon 3500+ XP
GIGABYTE KSTriton series, NS Ultra-939
4 GIG Mushkin RAM (yeild 3.62 Gig)
2 37-Gig Maxtor Raptor Hard Drives
Raid-0 Array
Windows XP Pro, Page File 4.2 Gig
Nvidia GForce 6800 video card

My benchmark pz3 is one character
Poser5Woman + EJ with head and body
textures and bump maps. Heavy shaders
due to face_off Real Skin Shader.
Danae's Bliss Vision Hair, long, with
texture.

Three spot lights, two no shadow, all white.
Main light shadow map 480, shining thru
slatted blinds. Dolly camera at 135mm.
No ray-trace.

Render settings
min shading rate .100
pixel samples 4
'cast shadow' only checked option
image size 500x550

From XP desktop to fully loaded pz3 = 8 seconds.

Sys1 P4 2.4Ghz 1GigRam 191 seconds
Sys2 AMD 2800 1GigRam 227 seconds
Sys3 AMD 3500 (above) 127 seconds

I am happy.

Thank all of you for your interest, brains and
clear explanations. I really appreciate the
time and caring you guys gave.

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