Well, thanks guys.
I think that I'm going to have to bite the bullet and order something tomorrow - my desktop is now throwing up errors everywhere and I think it's time to dig a hole in the garden and bury it there!!

I think, on balance I'm going for a Dell Precision T3500 workstation W3520 2.66GHz 4.8GT/s witha Quadro NVS295 card. It a lot of money (for me) but I need it to be reliable and last for a few years. I'm getting it at a good price so that helps!

Hopefully those render times will be shorter now!!

Many thanks

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