Quote - 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.

 

My personal opinion: I would save the money for the workstation card or invest in a better GTX type card. I have been running Vue since version 4 with several different GTX cards and they were all very good. Never had any iussues with stability after I upgraded the ram. I am currently using an ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU with 2Gb. It works very well. Vue does not utilize any of the high end features of the workstation cards. Those are mostly aimed at CAD and high end 3D packages. Vue uses the card predominantly simply for display similar to a computer game. Hence a good game card is typically also a good Vue card. Don't get me wrong, the work station cards are nice, I had a couple of quadros on one of my systems and they worked very well with Vue, but for the price you can get a lot more power with a game card.

Ciao

TD