WARNING :: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY READ AND RESPONDED TO THIS STATUS UPDATE. SPOILERS AHEAD...

Alright - here's the actual price breakdown for the build. Please keep in mind that I had some of these parts before Autumn 2017 - which was before I even had this PC (in fact, that would be when I had my first hand-built PC - the X5472 build).With that out of the way, let's see the shopping list, starting from 2018:

• Generic Silver Thermal Compound                                            -     1.99 USD
• Dell Precision T7500 (1x Xeon X5650 + 12GB DDR3)              - 170.00 USD
• Dell Precision (T7500) H236F CPU/RAM Riser Board                -  95.00 USD
• 24GB (6x 4GB) DDR3-1333 PC3-10600 (REG+ECC) RAM       -  50.00 USD
• Intel Xeon X5650 SLBV3 Processor                                           -   20.95 USD
• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS SB0350                             -  17.49 USD
• 24GB (6x 4GB) DDR3-1333 PC3-10600 (REG+ECC) RAM       -  50.00 USD

All other parts that you see, I already had in my inventory - which aided in reducing the cost. They include:

• nVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (25.00 USD - eBay,2017)
• nVIDIA GeForce GT 520 (17.00 USD - eBay,2017)
• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 SB0240 (00.00 - given to me in 2017)
• 4TB Seagate Central 5900rpm HDD (10.00 USD - yard sale)
• 500GB Seagate 5400rpm HDD (13.00 USD - eBay,2017)
• 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD (9.99 USD - eBay,2017)

The totals are as follows:

• 403.44 USD for purchases from 2018 alone
• 74.99 USD for purchases from 2017 alone
• 478.43 USD for all current parts, excluding future CPU+GPU purchase(s)

What do ya think so far?...