Well I finally got another PC to replace my ageing Core 2 Quad with 8GB of RAM (had the max RAM & CPU that's available for that generation of processor. The new PC is hardly a powerhouse but has a single Xeon 4 Core CPU which I can upgrade to one with hyper threading one so that would give an decrease in render times a bit.
The main thing is I now have 20GB of RAM which I can take upto 32GB, which while only a 12GB increase from my last PC does open up a lot more possibilities for scenes & their content so am enjoying playing around with those ideas. Also the board can handle 2 PCI-E gfx cards, although one will run at 4x while the o