I am getting a new computer  to replace my 6 yr. old machine and am considering a Dell Inspirion 570 MT with Windows 7, AMD Athlon II X4 Processor 630, 8 GB RAM, 640 GB HD, and an integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 Graphics chip (AMD chipset 785G).  Is that combination good to run Poser and Vue? What is more important for 3D graphics, the processor, the memory or the video card?

Any thoughts or advice appreciated.

John

Looks good to me, although if you're going to run Vue as well, I'd go with an Nvidia card, Vue sometimes has serious problems with some ATI cards, so I'm told...
That's just what I've heard, I only ever have Nvidia anyway...

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Cofiwch Dryweryn.

 Processor speed and number of cores for rendering.... go big.

Poser really uses the vid card opengl for previews , then its cpu and memory for rendering. 

I would try what you have listed first and see how it goes. You can always slot in a better card later.
I added an nvidia 6200 card for running a few games and Poser 7. 

I was an ATI card user for a long time, then I got a Nvidia...haven't looked back since.

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Looks like decent machine, almost the same that I have under my desk at home. The graphics chip is a bit on the weak side though, adding something like a GT240 would probably be a nice improvement.

The 8Gb of RAM and the (quad?) processor sound good.  But instead of relying on the onboard graphics, I'd get a midrange graphics card, so you can preview with hardware shading.  You'll be able to see procedural and tiling textures in preview, which helps greatly in getting materials dialed in.

preview without hardware shading:

preview with hardware shading:

Set this in the render settings, preview tab:

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5

Thanks to all for the information. This is very helpful.