One of my biggest reasons for getting a new computer put together is for Poser. I'm tired of being limited in what I can do in a scene. Tired of lock-ups. Tired of waiting.

I'm going from an Athalon 800 with 380 megs of memory to the following:

Athalon XP 3200 Barton, 400 Front system bus.
Gigabyte 7nnxp Motherboard (Which can do 400 bus speeds)
Matched pair of 512MB DDR 3200 400FSB for 1 Gig of memory
Hard drive, down the line, will be a SATA 120-220 Gig 7000RPs.

What I expect with this configuration is this:

I click on Poser, and within 3 seconds my 50Meg PZ3 is opened and ready to go.

I can load up to 4 Millenium figures with clothes and props in a scene without any problems whatsoever.

I can render as much as I need to, and even the biggest renders take only a minute or so.

Are my expectations realistic, or will I be disappointed?

I really want Poser to cook...the technology should finally be there, yes?

-WTB