Renderholic posted at 6:34AM Fri, 28 July 2017 - #4310853

Thanks for your reply. Budget constraints probably will limit me to an i7 7700 4 core, but good to know that high end video will not be necessary. Do you know if Poser 11 requires better video card?

Poser 11 still has Firefly and Superfly works with CPU so you don't require a powerful video card but it will make use of one for Superfly if available. Supports Nvidia only. The benefit of a video card is it allows for much higher render quality at same or better speed compared to CPU which is useful for removing noise. Re memory and Vue, IIRC memory becomes important when using displacement and eco instances so it depends on what kind of scenes you want to do and how much time you want to spend optimising to reduce memory. If you're planning to experiment with larger scenes then 8GB might be a bit restrictive.