I'm still rendering on my "gaming machine".
I5 6600K
But I bought a new graphic card, upgradet to 32GB RAM, new SSD for renderings and a HDD for backups in the last 2 months.
It's still needs around 30-40 minutes to render one image, but now with much better quality
I'll still use this rig for creating scenes and coding. But I'm going to build up a new machine for renderings.
My Sweet Neighbors is 5 months out now and I'm not making that much money with it that I can build up 2 high end machines
Most of the money goes into electricity bill (man, running a pc rendering all nights long let your electricity bill explode ^^) new assets, pay taxes and now a new machine
BTW: I'm really glad you like the new version