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i honestly believe that no matter what you're building a PC for unless it's going to be a "set it and forget it" type thing like a server or media center, 16GB is the minimum amount of memory you want to have in a system to completely eliminate any low memory issues for any program you're currently running or may want to run in the future (like CAD or Adobe which are resource hogs) and glitchy programs like browsers that tend to eat up memory for no reason (which they still haven't properly fixed).

That is one heck of a drawing board you got there. :D
And yes, plans change. I have about 40 pages of A4 sheets full with sketches for the
scratchbuild HELIOS was originally going to be (when Caselabs hadn't brought out the
SMH10 yet). At some point there was even going to be an evaporative radiator... All
in all that was probably about a year of planning before I finally settled on the SMH10.