To bring the discussion a bit more mundane:

I torture myself every so often buy going to the Dell Outlet, set the dropdown for Precision Workstations and max out the RAM....

Oh to have $10K for a refurbed workstation
Then I go to Alienware and max out the most expensive desktop they offer.

"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than that of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Intel Core i7 920, 24GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050 4GB video, 6TB HDD space
Poser 12: Inches (Poser(PC) user since 1 and the floppies/manual to prove it!)