4 grand?? for a dream machine?
That's not a dream machine for what Glen does..
This is more dreamy...
Dell™ Precision™ R5500
Dual Xeon X5690 (Six Core, 3.46GHz Turbo, 12MB, 6.4 GT/s)
192 GB ram
Rack mount
2 x 6 GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000
6 or so Disks on a Perc I6 controller
Dual FX100 Remote Acces Host controllers & thin clients, so i don't have to sit next to a noisy beast of a computer
24 grand + depending on the disks used.. SSD for speed or platters for capacity...
That's the basic box.. now if i really wanna give it some stick and somebody pays the bill, i'de consider a Hardware RAM disk, which would offer the system a way to increase performance past the 192 GB of Motherboard ram...
perhaps something like this
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech Report - Page 1