Hi,

I have a dual core FX 60 running at 2.7 ghz and a new, recently acquired Quad core running at 2.8ghz. Both systems have 4 gig ram and comparable harddrives etc.

I did a speed comparison check yesterday morning on a fairly complex scene that required alot of raytracing. Loaded scene on both systems simultianiously and hit the render button.

The quad core rendered the scene in 25 minutes, the dual core took 1 hour. But I agree Poser 7 use of mutli threading is crap.

So my own conclusion is get as many cores as you can with as much memory as you can and pray that E-frontier will improve Posers multi core handling, or get carrara, it uses all four cores properly and renders a better scene in a quarter of the time.

Peace,

Nick.