I took the plunge and upgraded my system to an AMD X2 5600, 4 gig ram, Geforce 8600 GT and Vista Ultimate 64.

Hoping some of you out there can share your experiences on render setting when using a fairly high end system.

I have really noticed the difference in render times with Carrara - but not so much with Poser - so I'm guessing it's my render settings....

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11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz   3.50 GHz
64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
Geforce RTX 3060 12 GB
Windows 11 Pro