Thanks Dale this makes alot of sense.

Just to confirm,

1) Render cows are to be installed on ALL computers, even the main PC that will have hypervue installed.

2. The main PC is to be of the higher spec in terms of cpu,memory & graphics card.

3) Only need x1 monitor, keyboard & mouse - if all are connected to a 4 port KVM switch.

4) I only have 10/100 onboard cards at the moment - so best option would be to buy gigabit ethernet cards for each PC, any advice on the card details/model no?

5. set rendercow to launch at startup.

Am I right in saying that rendercow and hypervue only speed up rendering - and does not have any effect for working with in vue i.e speed up tasks when working with vue - importing poser charactors ect?

Thanks guys for taking the time to go through this with me;)