Well ... for my original fun project that didn't happen, I reserved a budget of total 25.000 Euro.
Part of it I spent on travels instead. I helped a model from the US with 1.9k $US to buy a MacBook Pro, so she could continue her online precense and earnings. Bought some camera stuff, like a tele zoom lens for my camera. And for the rest I decided to go into this monster. The budget is close to the end.
But with buying new memory hex channel memory kits, I am not really prepared right now.
There was a reason I went for the 32 GB memory modules. This monster will work for me many years, maybe more than a decade, like my last workstation from 1998. And I am going to upgrade the memory over the years for my other stuff I do on it.
I have to s*l*e*e*p (since the censor script will remove it) a few times over it.