for some reason nobody has asked this and it's probably the most valid question.
A. What are you rendering?
B. What are your current render times?

It's that Bergs wallpaper I 've done in Vue 6. It will only let me go as big as 1440 x 900 any bigger and it says out of memory. I guess the 4 gb's of memory just isn't enough.. I've stopped every process I could and tried but it still won't go.. I like it the way it is and don't really want to change any materials. I think it's the water material & the iceberg material, translucency and some reflectiveness. The sky is just standard So I'm getting the new computer and hope it will help.. Not just that other things as well..When it rendered it only took a half hour or a liitle more..