Dare I ask, why you need so much power in so many machines?
What do you do, which is different from the rest of us, who get by with what we have?
I mostly use Adobe products (Photoshop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, etc.), internet browsing with HUNDREDS of tabs open at a time, I do website design/development, I play games, do a little bit of programming using tools such as Autoplay Media Studio, I run VM's for older software, etc.
Most of what I do needs RAM more than anything else. I mean, technically I could get by on an FX series AMD processor, but things are much smoother using an i7 and since I need at LEAST 32GB anyway (if I'm being honest with myself, 64GB is really my minimum these days), I might as well do the upgrade. I've been holding off upgrading my systems with new motherboards and putting in 128GB of memory because of the cost of memory right now. I mean, just the memory is $1,800 per machine:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...128gb_corsair_platinum-_-20-236-159-_-Product
So unless I want to spend a minimum of $5,000, I'm going to have to hold off upgrading my other two main systems. I went ahead and bit the bullet and upgraded my main computer to 128GB, but I just can't stomach paying $5,000 for what amounts to RAM, because the processor/motherboard upgrades will be barely noticeable. In fact, these newer motherboards have even less USB ports than my current boards. I have at least 12 things plugged into USB on my main invoicing / imaging computer and I don't like using those cheapo Chinese knockoff PCI USB cards if I can help it.
It's very expensive to do what I do. I wish it wasn't, but that's just life.
I don't really know what that's supposed to mean. I'm sure there are people on here with better systems than I have. My main office machines have 4th gen i7's in them.
He's a miner. Got that crypto fever.
Nah he doesn't have enough graphics cards for that.
Nope, no mining. I've built tons of mining rigs for my clients, but I never wanted to get into it personally. My best card (an Nvidia GTX 970) is pitiful for mining anyway, and my dual GTX 770's would actually COST me to mine with because they eat up so much electricity vs. computational power compared to newer cards.