Hi all - I've decided that it's time to upgrade my rather aging pc and wondered if anyone might be able to help me out with advice, info and comments?

The new machine is going to be a Windows 7 64bit OS machine and I'm mainly interested render speed with Poser 8.  I'm considering basing the machine around either an intel i7-920 with 6GB DDR3 (possibly eventually adding another 6GB tri pack) OR a quad Q9550 with 8 GB DDR2.

I guess I'm mainly wondering if an i7 machine would perform significantly better with poser 8 - well, enough to justify the extra cash! Any thoughts on that or general windows 7 64bit/poser 8/pc compatibility issues would be fantastic...

thanks in advance :)