Hello aRtBee,

Thank you this is helpful and this is great advice.
I've got a quad based machine (i7 930).

The idea I had come up with  was just to enable comunication to another rig and pass Poser scene files through the USB cable made for this purpose ( it's got a capicitor or DC blocking diodes).   I was looking at the AMD 6 CPU 3.2 GHz (goes for $285) and thought that a cheap motherboard and a handful of memory and my computer would never be tied up.

What I am curious about is the Render engines,
there are a couple that I have looked at that are open source or freeware, (Indigo) that are 64 bit renderers.  I have no idea if one can, or if so; how to load Poser scene files for rendering.  If that were no problem, or if I could use my copy of Poser for this purpose, I think I would be ordering parts.  Otherwise I think that I will adopt your work procedure.
Cheers,
Bim 

P.S.
Okay, I just checked out Indigo and it supports;

• Blender

• 3D Studio Max

• Sketchup

• Cinema 4D

• Maya

• Truespace

•  

• Revit

It does not support Poser.  Nor is it freeware any longer but a comercial product.

3dbim

PoserPro 2012