Thanks for the reply, iborg64. That's a nice rig, though way out of my price range.

The Xeon's compare pretty well to the i7's. An E3 1230 V3 (Haswell) Xeon costs about £190 and looks comparable to an i7 4770 (non K) performance wise. At least if this anything to go off http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1230+v3+%40+3.30GHz&id=1942

Would really like to find out if the workstation GPU's are worth the investment, or whether something like a GTX 660/760 would be suitable. I know that the drivers for AMD's workstation cards aren't as good as Nvidia's. Which is why Nvidia rule the roost when it comes to workstation cards. More than anything, I just want a rig that helps Vue to run more stable. I've never had a program that crashes as much as Vue does. At times it feels like trying to work with a petulant child. Some scenes it will have maybe a hiccup or too along the way, but be otherwise fine. Other times it persists in flipping me off and crashing.

The exhiliration of obscenity, the obscenity of obviousness, the obviousness of power, the power of simulation... ravishing Hyperrealism... mind blowing!