Quote - > Quote - Yeah, I am running Win 7 64bit so it should handle 32GB fine.  I guess I will bite the bullet now and go for the extra RAM.

  ~ Russ 

I'm on the Nvidia boat, too. Tough to top those fast processors and ddr5 on-board! The graphics card, at least for rendering purposes, is kind of the bottleneck if you're planning on doing some hardcore renders. Yes, GPU is great when it works, but I'm still biting my thumb for a proper cpu+gpu hybrid version of lux. 32GB will be plenty unless you're planning on doing animations, but in that event, RAM won't be the limiter near as much as your core count. I'm seriously thinking its time to get a couple bare bones units and make a home renderfarm. Hmm... 24 cores?

That's what I've done with a couple of linux machines. I say machines but one is just Mboard, AMD Phenom X4 940 CPU, 16GB Memory and PSU.

Then it boots off the other via NFS, though it could use a USB pen to boot and then mount the filesystems from NFS. The other is a 8 core AMD FX, 12GB, HDD and PSU. Connected via a 1GB Network switch. Also means that since they use the same Lux core files, only need to upgrade the Linux install once.

With my Win7 AMD Phenom X4 955 PC gives me 16 threads. Performance wise, FX is 20% faster than my Win7, X4 940 is about 10% slower.