FWIW, the GTX 980 Ti's just dropped 200 bucks in price. Week before last when I was looking, they were 650. Last week, they were 470. I had to buy one at that price. I also just bought a refurbed HP Z620 workstation with 2-2.6gz 8 Core Xeons and 64 gigs of ram. Even rendering on just CPU isn't too shabby. Nothing to get super excited about, but not too shabby ;).

Laurie