Valuable and wise comments there, Bopper and many thanks for them.

I was lucky enough to be invited to ine of the Goldcoasts leading graphics labs. here in Australia.

They use Poser7 with a quad setup and a Nvidea Quadro FX3000.

The guy in charge said it took just about two days to configure the Quadro to accept Poser but wowie what results they get !

No more messing about with "show populated". Just leave everything on full and the preview window just hums along. No stutters or stammers. No halting or stopping when panning or rotating.
So smooth and the preview render looks so bloody close to a final render it would drop the jaw of anyone.
However the price of such fluidity is about the price of 4 excellent computers with monitors !!
Too expensive for me. I'll stick with my old openGL card for now but I'm saving up !!
Thanks again for those words of wisdom, Bopper and more piccies please !! :)