I do understand your situation, Vue is a very expensive application to keep up to to date, but so are most other applications :) I've been on Vue 6 for ages, but finally last year upgraded. The only thing I can tell you is that going from Vue 8 to Vue 2014 is a huge step, also for some of the modules. I cannot justify buying Vue each year, but going from 6 to 10 and then 2014 is totally worth it and so will going from 8 to 2014 :) The only shame is that E-On doesn't do sales :(

E-On has demos of each version these days which you can test for 30 days or so, so that may be a good option to find out what the changes are and how your machine handles all the improvements.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk