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Thanks ManStan to talk some sense into this thread. I was preparing my next post with some numbers, but it's good that you are bringing-in yours.

You forgot to add the cost of a cooling system, a hefty power supply, an extension chassis/motherboard in case you want to bridge 2 or more of these monsters, because no motherboard that I know of can fit more than one of them, and you get yourself a system nearing $7500 to $10K, to run Carrara as a hobbyist!

Man o man! This is becoming an expensive hobby! I better start thinking of some good explanations to my other half as to why I need to spend this kind of money.

But hopefully DustRider and Maxxxmodelz will help me on that too!

BTW, this scene (link) takes over 8 GB in RAM, as seen by the Task Manager. So I would need at least 2 of the toys you mentioned to handle it.