Computers are not only our job but our hobby as well.

You will never need more than one real PC running Gentoo Linux...

Think gaming under Linux is impossible? See this:
Il2 FB - a WW II combat flight sim
running under Wine on Gentoo Linux...



Will your software run on an 8 processor machine?
No need to buy 8 Opterons to find out.
Qemu emulating 8 processors (count the penguins)...


An 8 CPU machine emulator up and running.