Agreed. And FWIW, I'm not saying I use AMD kit exclusively. I'm fine with using NVIDIA hardware and CUDA when needed. In addition to the AMD based box I'm build

Agreed. And FWIW, I'm not saying I use AMD kit exclusively. I'm fine with using NVIDIA hardware and CUDA when needed. In addition to the AMD based box I'm building for the lab at home, I'm also building a sister box which will be nearly identical, except using an NVIDIA GPU. I am an ideologue but I'm also at least a little bit pragmatic. :-)