yeah I plan to make my next computer a total beast so I can just run nearly anything
anyway back on FL advice, I've recently started actually using the plugin picker, I used to ignore it because it bombards you with a ton of stuff at first and doesn't seem as fast but it's really useful if you go in and customize it. FL Studio 10 > Data > Patches > Plugin Database, delete everything you don't use often, then in FL you can add things to it by selecting the database in the browser and there's an option to add the current plugin to the selected folder in the plugin wrapper. then you can insert any of your go-to plugins just by hitting ctrl F8 or right clicking the FX slots in the mixer(wish there was a way to just bring up generators like this...). you can also take most of your sample based stuff like slicex, sf2 player, granulator etc out because you can just open those from the browser with the desired samples
another thing I didn't know about the picker is that when you add plugin to database it saves its state and will load that, so if you want to change the default of something(eew sytrus strings...), just delete it, change the settings, and re-add it.