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Are you serious? That's a medium size project, just get a fast machine (e.g. i7 4770) and you'll be perfectly fine.
I've got an 8 core 3.0 Xeon with 32Gb RAM and Samsung 840. It's still slow. It's more latency than long waits but it's enough to stop me using it.
8 core Xeon would be good at video rendering, but as of now for VS and R# you need single threaded performance, where a 3.9GHz Haswell shines.