Gill,
assuming you want a desktop and have the cash, check my latest specs for a Vue-PC build :)
that would give you a beast ;
(from what I've seen DDR3 RAM in large sizes is easier to get hold of in the USA than here in UK, so you could have a 12 GIG ram system....!)
:)

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