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I just went over this post.  Since this is a 2-person operation, I guess my single monster solution might not be best.
 
Workstation-grade video cards are mainly a benefit to photo-editing and 3d modeling.  AMD's FirePro, and Nvidia Quadro lines are best for these types of work mostly because of the application support more than anything else.  What I mean is that the software for developing graphics is designed around this type of hardware, so workstation-grade GPUs tend to work much better than a gaming grade GPU solution.
 
...and I meant no insult in my earlier post.  I jump in quickly, because I know there is a learning process to component selection (which is why you are here), and I really don't like "hasty" decisions regarding builds.  Like if you took my 16-core, dual CPU, $7000 build and bought it tomorrow... bad idea :lol:

Downloading more ram essentially let's you use your hard drive as ram which is really slow

I just found this videos. This guy is explaining VRM and PWM on motherboards. How they work & what they are...
I found it very informative.
Part 1 : Motherboard VRM Explaination Part1: The VRM and PWM

Part 2 : Motherboard VRM Explanation Part 2: Digital vs Analog PWM

Part 3 : [sH]Motherboard VRM Explanations Part 3: IR3550 versus other MOSFETs

"I'll be back..."
 
Yes, i just said that.

The nature of my work requires I look things up constantly, and no internet browser has yet figured out an intensive enough bookmark organizer for me to use it over simply buying hardware that will keep it all open and ready for use at any time. My business is that of subsidizing costs through learning and producing products myself. Instead of buying products, we make them or grow them ourselves. So, at any given time, there are hundreds of different resources that do not overlap. Nothing you learn over here about the making of mozzarella can prepare you for the chemical synthesis of fingizides nor can that preparation help you in the tending and caring of livestock or the writing and drafting of legal papers and law suits. I have many different places I take information from online. The bookmark applications on web browsers can not organize it all into a spectrum that is easily navigable over simply using the group tabs function of firefox. But each tab can have as many as 200 tabs and often in the high tens to mid hundred anyways. If I research more than 5 topics at a time, it's very easy to ring up 500 tabs. I was simply talking about the video tabs which are the big stressors. I have to double click the tabs over button(which should take you from one side to the other of one window) as many as five times just to get through the number I have open in this tab of this window. There are so many behind this in the group tabs section.The nature of these CPU's and motherboards(well I need to confirm but it seems as though) have better hardware, from more pins on the CPU to the VRM having 8 true phases(at least this seems to be the case for ROG boards.) as mentioned before. And yes, the fact is, these machines will be substandard in five years. This was the reason I included the point about these machines being built for potential to work with future components(say thorugh thunderbolt connection or through the many PCIe ports and be able to be pushed to a maximum capacity with easy user interface controls with overclocking while at the same time hardware built tough enough to not be strained(or less strained) by the overuse.
I did mention that I only started learning about hardware maybe a week ago.. Give me a break. I am trying. If you have sources for information, I'll gladly consume whatever they have to offer. I don't mean to act foolishly. I am not even the one who will be using the second station for video editing. I don't know anything about that and I have already tasked the person who will use it with composing a list of both the programs they will be using and the different requirements those programs demand. The ram situation for the WS was more based on the monitoring of my current use of memory, which has not gone over like 2.7 and definitely not 3.0GB. Although I have been taking it easy on this computer due to the forced shutdowns from overheating, I figured 16GB contained enough buffer room, plus I was under the impression I could overclock it, and I imagined being the dominator platform it would hold to more intensive use than the vengeance. For the RVE, you're right. That was like, a: "Holy shit, the memory is thousands of dollars?... What can we get away with for now?" But, I can respect the fact that I don't know how to define what I can get away with, I can't even define the needs of this one yet. But considering the pricing overall, it doesn't seem entirely undoable.
As for the GPU's, to be honest, I was basicaly shooting in the dark. There were some recommendations on http://www.videomaker.com/article/17135-editing-in-4k-minimum-system-requirementsbut I think they were more minimums and I am not sure what happened from there to here; price, cores, GPU knowledge mostly infered from gaming reviewers. (I don't know what else to do for this type of info, Like I said I'll gladly consume any info you've got!) And I don't know what the needs are yet, but I will be pressing them for that info. The idea for the RVE was to have something that could be able to do the more fun stuff and be pushed to the extreme limits with ease of UI, while being more visually capable than the WS. The idea, allbeit novice at best, being that if we could hook up an 8k monitor and four GPU's in SLI or Crossfire(if it works how I understand it to) with a couple m.2 cards(that will have higher bit/s in the future) while overclocking, we might be able to watch movies on these machines in ten years. Does that make sense? Of course, let me say again: that was the idea, allbeit novice at best.
And just in case, what does "workstation grade cards" mean? Does the workstation mean the WS motherboard or like professional? Is this an official grading or more of a performance grade? By cards, you do mean GPU's right? Or is this something else like a 4k video PCIe storage card? I'm sorry for my limits, I swear I am trying my best! Please bear with me.

In 5 years, anything you buy today will be "sub-standard" in it's performance.  Dual CPU workstation grade Motherboards are available and will help with the longevity of the unit.