thanks for the insight.

the budget doesn't appear to be the limiting factor - config seems to be the key. 32 gig of ram - w/ a mother board config for cache to the RAM.

I have been out the computer biz for a long long time so I have no idea what the current options are. I am not into building my own - any chance that the 32 gig/? graphics card be properly config'd?

Thanks

Mike