Im pursuing a BFA in animation degree, this classmate of mine walk over the other day, and say- " I wanna buy a PC!"
I say - What? Why? You bought a fairy high end one like an year back. (The Config - i7920 / Venomous X / 12Gb GSkill Rip jaws 1600 Mhz / 5870 / etc etc Everything top notch)
He replies - Yaar, i want it for rendering and stuff only. My budget is 80k (i nearly fell off the chair, because he had spent some 85 grand on the PC previous PC and added a very high end workstation graphics card a few months back)
I was like - you already have such a high end PC, why do you need a new one for rendering.??!! As is you barely do any modelling on it. Most of the modelling stuff is done at college and rest , you use your PC to render out.!!
He Goes - Yaar wo RAm, ghis jayegi uski. And i dont want ki uski RAM ghis ke Khatam ho jaye.
And believe it or not, the guy literally meant it, when he said RAM Ghis Jayegi! I have a couple of more guys here who believe the same thing.
I told him this : I am use a Core 2 Q 9300 (Overclock to 3.5 Ghz) with 8GB 1200 Mhz GSkill RAM (OC'd tp 1230Mhz) , with a P5q Deluxe (Again with the North Bridge tweaked) and a GTX260 (recently changed to GTX 560) for the past 2 and a half years, and most of the time the machine is running 24/7. And after the type of Batch rendering i do, the system is running perfectly fine! Do you seriously think my RAM is going anywhere??
He just left with a straight face and hasn't bothered asking me for tech help since. Rumor has it, he is selling his Canon 500D for 24k (stock kit) and getting a 5d Mark II. Worst part, i can take better pictures than him, using my iPhone 4/Sensation/G2x/ Annnndddd my Ultra Cheapo Sony A200!.