As indicated in the title, I'm going to build a new computer to use with both Daz Studio and Poser 11. **On Daz, I will be using mostly Iray, **and for Poser 11 I mostly use the Comic Book preview mode and Firefly (I'm starting to play with Superfly, but when I'm interested in realistic renders, I just go back to Iray because I'm already familiar with it).

I was holding out for the nVidia 1070 and 1080 cards, but, frankly, I've already waited 6 months and the new cards don't even work with Iray. So, enough is enough. I'm going to build a box based on the older, tried-and-true technology (video card will be 1-3 nvidia 960s or a pair of 970s). Which, of course, brings up the processor. I had pretty-much decided to go with a 6th gen i7, but while searching for pre-built systems, I came across the **AMD FX-8320. **

This made me pause. The AMD has 8 cores, whereas the Intel has 4 (yeah, I know there's an 8-Core i7 out there, but out of my price range -- unless someone has a good source for them?). Would extra cores provide a boost for rendering Open GL with Daz, or with Poser's Comic Book Mode (which is basically a render of the display/draw mode)? I've read a few times here in the forums that for the display mode in Poser, cores are more imporant. So would the 8-core AMD processor be better than the 4-core i7 processor? Or are my first instincts right to go with the new i7 platform?

Any thoughts or suggestions on this will be greatly appreciated!

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System: Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H Laptop | Windows 11 Professional | 32GB RAM |  14th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-14900HX | Nvidia RTX 4090 Laptop GPU 16GB 9728 CUDA Cores
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