I remember when I spent 2k in 1998 oct bought built PC , it was a ASUS P2B with SCSI on board so I used a 9GB Cheetah drive, a Matrox Millineium and Voodoo 2.
now with 2k you can buy a 64GB RAM rig top of line hexa core....... Were at P9, 7 generations since 1998 .....gl