1. Number of physical cores; the more the better; Poser will use what you give it.  Note that an AMD FX chip has only one floating point core per each two integer cores (a six core FX xhip actually has only three FP cores), which hurts their performance in comparison to the Phenom II when looking at 3DS MAX benchmarks.

2. RAM; It's dirt cheap, so get at least 16GB.

Everything else is incremental...

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