I just built a new system for 780 USD. Not near as fast but I figured I will upgrade the proccessor and another hard drive and run raid in a few months. Build a whole new system in a year or so. Kevin, I hear you about the beer thing.

Do you have any work you have done. I was looking for some. A machine like that you could really use it to build some heavy models. If you are carefull and build things right you could be one of the first to do a GI and FG animation of high quality. Looking forward to seeing that baby sceam.