I was a reluctant P6 user (I still load all new downloads into my P5 Runtime linked to P6) until I tried animating in Firefly (Production Quality). I never got past 8 or 9 frames in P5 before it would freeze up, but in P6 I haven't had a freeze up yet.

Intel Core I7 3090K 4.5 GhZ (overclocked) 12-meg cache CPU, 32 Gig DDR3 memory, GeoForce GTX680 2gig 256 Bit PCI Express 3.0 graphic card, 3 Western Difgital 7200 rpm 1 Tb SATA Hard Drives