Jon....... I bought 6 gigs of Ram and a 5850 Radeon graphics card.. I definatly now need a Solid State drive! The Graphics card was a great investment I am actually able to see what is going on in my scene in great detail. Vue has not crashed since I upped the Ram and am regularily using 10 gigs of the 12 .... probably because I am now displacing anything that falls under my mouse cursor! hehe. However there is one really obvious lag when it comes to Vue now and that is the loading/saving times of scenes I had to sell the shirt off my back to get the graphics card and Ram so will have to wait for SSD! This was not as apparant before the other upgrades