tommy3010

I recently had installed a coolermaster riser in my 011 I wanted the card higher in case for future rad if I wanted so I modded top of riser to go one slot higher,but would not clear my Corsair vengeance pro ram.so  went down to the local steel shop bought a piece of 16 gauge sheet steel and 2 hours later I got what I wanted and is a hell of lot more sturdy than the cooler master was

It'll be fine

Jeez, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning..
 
As someone who jumped on board the Ryzen hype train and got a 1950X and X399 board, only to be plagued with a tonne of BIOS/AGESA related issues that simply were not fixed (still not to this day), I am still skeptical about Ryzen, it's far far from a polished platform, the number of bios updates that improve performance and fix bugs just shows that.
 
You all go "buy a ryzen and each BIOS update gives you free performance" yeah sure it does, but in reality it's fixing bugs which simply should NOT be there from the start. Go on all you like about how Intel has some security flaws or whatever, and true, i've lost 5-10% IOPs performance on my NVMe drives (when specifically benchmarking to test that anyway, otherwise no noticable difference), but there was no discernible difference in cpu benchmark scores that weren't inside the margin of error of said benchmarks.
 
My personal reasoning for going back to Intel from AMD was the fact that whatever motherboard you buy, whatever 9900K you buy, they will all boost the same, and perform the same, whichever damn BIOS version i use. Not only that, but I have 3 NVMe drives, and no Ryzen board could accomodate this (at least not with all slots at with the full 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0) at the time of purchase.
 
As for OPs question;
 
MSI MEG Z390 ACE
-Second best VRM
-Incredibly Solid BIOS, i've owned many MSI boards, and zero of them have had any kind of BIOS issue.
 
AORUS Z390 MASTER
-Best VRM of the 3 boards i list here
-Shittiest BIOS known to man, seriously, gigabyte somehow made their already kinda poor BIOS interface, even worse.. (idk how)
 
ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9
-Weakest VRM of the 3, worthwhile doing a -ve vCore offset.
-Decent BIOS, a little buggy (i'm currently working with ASRock support to test and fix some of the issues), but very easy to naviage and setup.
 
I won't suggest the ASUS Maximus XI Hero, while it has a decent BIOS, it's VRM is weaker than some of the more budget boards from the likes of MSI and Gigabyte... and it's marginally more expensive.

Not for photoshop/AE lol. Depending on what you're doing you can actually use that. Know a guy who can use all 16c/32t on his TR chip, 128GB RAM, and a 200GB 4x NVMe drive Raid 0 cache all "just" for lightroom and photoshop. It's overkill until you need to push something out very fast to meet a deadline. 

If you aren't doing it professionally or on tight deadlines then it's probs overkill though lol. 
 
Yes, GPUs don't really care about what CPU you run them with. 
 

64GB ram is great, especially for AfterEffect that can eat everything you have, even 128GB.
Please do not propose "32 GB is enough" since you don't know how someone wants to use it.
If OP has money, he can even use extra 32 GB for ramdisk if he wants to process lot of video files as fast as possible. Or use it for download / unpacking / whatever.
I have 32 GB of ram but consider buying another 32 GB and increase my ramdisk from 10 to 30 GB. Not everyone uses computers only for games. Someone wants to have more ram, no matter if is worth it (money) or not, just for better computer experience. If OP can utilize it - 64GB is great. And if OP wants i9-9900k and money is not a problem for him, 9900k is great choice. If he prefers Intel, it's his choice.
 

It’s for photoshop after effects and illustrator plus gaming 

I also want 64 fetabyte on ramz, please let it be real goat feta for extra performance and lower latency.
 
On a serious note Aorus master should be a nice choice (I would buy it):

Source: https://www.kitguru.net/components/leo-waldock/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-best-vrm-cooling-we-have-ever-seen/

Yes, pretty much.

List your entire rig (pcpartpicker.com/list), country and budget for upgrade, we will make a build for you OP.

Yes, Gigabyte Z390 Elite \ Pro (Wi-Fi) or ASRock Taichi boards have good value for what they offer, there are some ASUS Strix (-F\-H) but they have somewhat worse VRM.

I didn't see that the 9900K price dropped enough to make a big difference (last I thought I saw it was like $20-30 more, so maybe worth).  
 
 I agree that it's most certainly NOT worth paying $50+ more for slight binning improvement with 9900K vs KS

Presumably yes, since your i7-7700k means your board should be either Z270 or Z170 w/ updated BIOS.  Neither of those boards can do 9th Gen Intel, for that you'd want Z390 (or guaranteed newest BIOS Z370 if retailer or 3rd party can confirm).

This ^  But I would even go so far to say if buying new, you'd want i9-9900KS since it's a tad better.  Edit:  Nevermind, the current price of the 9900KS is stupid, stick with the i9-9900K as noted.
 
@tommy3010Here's a link to Puget Systems where they do the testing, and confirm it:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CPU-Roundup-AMD-Ryzen-3rd-Gen-AMD-Threadripper-2-Intel-9th-Gen-Intel-X-series-1533/

9900k

Without a motherboard change there isn't any better CPU that you can use.

zotac 1080 ti xtreme amp ed 

thank you 

Mate thank you installing now