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Raid Systems, fast transfer speeds for Terabytes of Storage and working with 4k Red and Arri Footage. Not to mention daisy-chain multiple HDD's. I am a full time editor, so I transfer A LOT of data.

Hi Starelementpoke, I've considered Ryzen as its a pretty awesome deal, but I would like to keep my doors open for thunderbolt 3 expansion, with something like this: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-ALPINE-RIDGE-rev-10#ov What do you think?

Hi Dizmo, my bad, I forgot to mention I already own a video card and drives *updated the post at the bottom. I am video editor and compositor so thats my main use for this PC.

Link to build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/33hZm8 1. Budget & Location 2000 - 1500 $US 2. Aim Video Editing, Color Grading and Compositing 4k footage. Software: Premiere, Avid, Pro Tools, After Effects, Cinema 4d, Autodesk Smoke. 3. Monitors Two monitors. 4. Peripherals Mouse and Keyboard and Thunderbolt 3 card: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-ALPINE-RIDGE-rev-10#ov 5. Why are you upgrading? Current machine is an old modular Mac Pro switching to PC. All advice is very much appreciated, thank you! Things I know least about, RAM and Power. Is my Ram good for this system, is there "better" brands/models? I have selected a 850w unit, is that enough, or should I get something beefier for more choice for upgradability? Once again thank you for helping wrap my head around pc building! *Update 1* : Forgot to mention I already own a 980ti + (x2) Samsung 850 Evo SSD's, (1x) Ultra Disk 2 1Tb SSD, and (x3) 4TB HDDs. *Update 2* : I know AMD has some very competitive deals right now but I very much depend on thunderbolt technology.

Hello! I am building a workstation for Video Editing in Premiere and Compositing/Color in After Effects and Resolve. I work a lot with Red and Arri footage: from 720p, to a lot of 4k, 5k and sometime even 8k (thank god for proxy workflows). *Thunderbolt is a must so unfortunately AMD is out of the picture So... The only Mobos I was able to find with official support for thunderbolt 3 are from Gigabyte. The GA-X99P-SLI and the three Z170X-Gaming Mobos. So Z170 Chipset vs X99. Both have the features I need however I am leaning towards the X99 due to having more PCI lanes, and more RAM lanes. After a lot of research I realized none of the Asus Mobos support Thunderbolt 3, and the PCI card they provide is not reliable at best, unusable at worst (its only Thunderbolt 2 as well). My budget is 1000 dollars but this does NOT include GPU and HDDs which I already own. A 980ti and two 1TB Samsung Evo 850 SSD's and plenty of HDD's. Here's what I put together so far, let me know what you think! I especially need help with picking RAM as its the area I know least about. Thank you! Link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/33hZm8 1. Budget & Location 1,000.00 USD (not including GPU and HDDs) California, USA. 2. Aim Video Editor, Colorist, Compositor. 4k and even 8k video (Red+Arri). Thunderbolt 3 is a must. Software includes: Avid, Premiere, After Effects, Resolve, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Pro Tools and Autodesk Smoke. 3. Monitors Own a 10bit monitor, eventually would like to add a reference monitor. 4. Peripherals No peripherals, 5. Why are you upgrading? Current workstation is an aging Mac Pro 5,1 great for a lot of work even in Bootcamp. However I need a new system as backup, and thunderbolt support. Mac Pro would continue to be used as a rendering/transcoding beastie.