what i meant by "if poser can handle 8 cores" is, does the all core can work together in Poser7 during the rendering operation ? I know all the core are in use thanks to the OS.
So, when you have a 8 cores machine, does poser render like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esE2o3mMtog

in Poser, you can saw your scene 's been rendering in eight parts ?