Techgoggles

here is the abc file just in case.
I took in a obj file, did a simple rigid body sim. exported an abc for maya.

When I make a mesh in Houdini, and take that in Maya, it works. But not in this case.

I am not able to emit fluid from mesh that I imported as ABC from Houdini. 

Getting this error. I also get the same error when I apply a MEL script that applies shaders randomly.

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/ Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/dynExecFluidEmitterCommands.mel line 47: Object ‘file1_106’ not found.

I am on a 2000-2500$ budget, I have done some Infographics projects for AMD, so I can get AMD hardware at Distributor price.
I am thinking of getting a Ryzen 1700X with an RX 480 8GB Card, and 32GB RAM to start with.
I heard that Houdini uses Open CL and AMD's support for it is better than nVidia, Is that true?

I am a Freelancer and a Youtuber, so I will be using this machine for both, my work involves everything, from editing videos and 2D graphics to Particles, fluids and Rigid Body sims.

Non Houdini stuff I know can be done on a 1000$ PC with ease, but since Ryzen's launch, I am wondering a decent freelance machine doesn't need to cross 5000$ plus what I save on CPU, I will invest on more RAM and SSD's.

Thanks in Advance
Angad

P.S. Currently I use Houdini, mostly for Rigid Body sims.