Quote -  what would you recommend?

Hard to say without knowing your budget. If you're buying off-the-shelf you'll find that the 'powerful' desktops are targeted at gaming nerds. They tend to want fabulous graphics cards - you need something decent, but you should sacrifice some graphics performance to get the best CPU you can afford.

Prioritise your spending thus:

1. CPU (Intel Core i7 if funds allow)
2. RAM (the more the merrier, but stick to the basic stuff)
3. Graphics card (won't affect rendering, but will affect responsiveness when dealing with complex Poser scenes)
4. everything else

Doing a self-build is the way to get the most bangs for your buck, but only if you know what you're doing - you can make some very expensive mistakes. Also look for 'barebones' systems: typically the motherboard + CPU + RAM installed, all you have to do is put it in a case, add hard disks and graphics card and install the OS.

Many sites (e.g. Dell) let you configure your own PC to some extent, and there's probably a local store that will build one to your specs.

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Windows 10 x64 Pro - Intel Xeon E5450 @ 3.00GHz (x2)

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