brianhen opened this issue on Feb 28, 2006 ยท 13 posts
svdl posted Tue, 28 February 2006 at 12:20 PM
Dual core is not supported by Poser (yet), but it will allow you to do something else when Poser is rendering. An Athlon64 x2 4400 is a good CPU. It has 1024K L2 cache per core, 2xFSB800 (1 FSB800 per core) to main memory, each core runs at 2.2 GHz. Go for dual channel. I'd advise installing 2x1 GB fast memory, Kingston HyperX or Crucial. Multiple fast disks. WD Raptors are fine. Plus a big disk to hold your work and backups. A decent OpenGL compliant graphics card. 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm is the best, but very pricey. nVidia Quadro is also good, but still pricey. If you can get your hands on an nVidia 6800 based card, you can tweak it into a QuadroFX4000 using RivaTuner. In fact, OpenGL speed is not priority #1. OpenGL compatibility is. The problem with most consumer graphics cards is that they are not fully OpenGL compliant. The professional cards are.
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