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Hey thank you for the reply! I guess AMD it is then! I really do not want to give team green any money at this point. The way they price their cards does not sit well with me. Oh thank you! that is really helpful! Yeah it is going to be a 4K Display! I want to future proof. Part of me kind of wants to wait for the next generation hardware (to then maybe scoop up some nice sales or something), hence the cheaper ARC with more RAM.

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could help me find a good graphics card primarily for rendering videos in 4k in davinci resolve (i am an actor and have to shoot tons of self-tapes, since the industry has shifted towards that now.) I also play some light games like warzone (with a few friends casually) and mostly stuff like CK 3 or HOI 4 honestly. I was going to finally buy a new pc and go all out and get a 4090 but honestly i kind of don't want to spend so much money on a graphics card that has not the best value proposition (its like 1.8k euros here...). I also live in Germany if that helps. I was weirdly enough looking at the ARC 770 because of the AV1 encoding (would be good for self-tapes as it keeps the file size down). Thanks in advance guys :)

That is actually a good point to consider! Thank you so much for the feedback. Just as a little thought experiment. Would a peltier type cooler like this https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-quantum-delta2-tec-d-rgb-full-nickel technically not work with a custom 280 loop? What do you guys think the performance would be?

Thank you so much for your response. Right now a 3090 from asus goes for around 1400. In Europe prices are always far more expensive than in the U.S. or Canada. Probably tariffs and taxes. I saw a 3080ti from zotac for 1000 so i might also go for that one but the extra vram would be nice. Thanks for your response. I am also hesitant with getting an AM4 CPU because it is the end of the line for that socket. with 1700 i have some upgrade paths down the line. And I think I will wait a bit for announcements to come and buy them then, but right now is a pretty good time to buy GPUs and CPUs in Germany. Thanks so much! i had not considered the first point actually! thank you. I was thinking of getting one by EKWB as 280 AiOs are hard to come by weirdly enough. I was actually thinking of leaving the top panel off as well and also to opt for the mesh kit as i really like that aesthetic.

Budget (including currency): 3500 Euros Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Suite, Gaming Hey guys, I wanted to build a new PC after around 10 years of not owning a proper one (I know it has been a long time...). I wanted to build a mini-ITX system in the Lian Li Q58W4 with a 12900K. Now most mini-ITX cases sadly only go up to 280mm (if at all, most stop at 240). Do you guys think it would be enough to cool the 12900k? or should I go with a 5900X or 5950X. Thunderbolt 4 would be kind of nice but I am not really married to that. I am planning on obviously gaming on it as well as starting a small film production company, mainly to stay busy once I finish acting school. I saved up a pretty decent budget over the years and rn in germany you can get pretty good deals on 3090s so I thought i would throw that one in there as well. How do you guys think that will affect temps? Anyone have any experience with that case? Thanks in advance for your help guys!

Oh thanks for the help! this table is pretty comprehensive, i am sure it will take me some time to process all this information.

Hey guys, im in a little bit of a weird spot. I am currently using my surface pro 4 as a daily driver for Uni and im looking to replace it. However i got quite used and fond of the 2 and one form factor. is there any comparable 2 and 1 to the new surface book 3 out there with a little more power?

@dizmo @Zando Bob thanks guys for the help! sorry for the infrequent posting haha. I think I will definitely go team red as far as CPU is concerned (unless team blue comes out with an amazing price competitive CPU which i frankly do not really see for the consumer market but who knows!). And you are right i completely forgot to factor in GPU limitations on certain codecs... so i guess NVIDIA it is which is fine by me! @RejZoR as for buying a card independently. i guess i didn't make it clear in my first post but i would essentially be building the PC from the ground up. Essentially my gaming computer in my last 4 years has boiled down to a ps4 pro and a surface pro 4... so i have absolutely no Base. However i still have the chassis of my old gaming PC from many many moons ago haha.

what makes you say that? I guess so, however in this instance it seems that waiting might actually bring large improvements and not just incremental gains.

Hey guys, me and a friend are going to start a movie production company together. My computer will be built mainly for that purpose. However as you know a cool side effect of building a workstation for content editing is the fact that you can game on it as well. Now to my actual question, should I build a PC now or wait until Big Navi and the Ryzen 4000 series? Time is currently no issue for us as we wont be shooting anytime soon because of the COVID-19 situation. Best regards and stay healthy from Germany!