Ash19256

First time folder, signed up thanks to the LTT video on this whole thing. Didn't know there was a giveaway on. Probably going to miss it, because it's the 22nd and it appears the drawing is on the 26th, but hey. Every bit helps, eh?

Good points.

Good point on the AMD GPU and the multiple monitors thing. And as for Vulkan vs. DX12, why not both?

One testing method I was thinking of, to save on the number of machines required and money spent, would be using virtual machines to emulate less powerful systems for testing. This is something that I'm fairly certain would get an advantage from the Threadripper's larger core count when OCed.

I'm figuring it would likely max out at using Unreal Engine/Unity, with capacity to develop for DirectX (Ideally up to DirectX 12) and at least a little 3d modeling.

I was figuring that I'd do a mild overclock to compensate for the slow frequencies. I've heard that people have been able to use Asus' BIOS settings to auto-clock the 1950X to ~3.9 GHz, which appears to be plenty fast.

Here's the links for the two builds being proposed. The AMD Threadripper 1950X build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zgk7tJ The i7-8700K build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zzCvBP What I want to know is if either of these builds will bottleneck on the GPU or CPU, and which is the best for the intended use, which is going for high speed game development, as well as testing and gaming. This is a purely hypothetical build scenario, proposed mostly out of curiosity. Additionally, the initial price tag is no more than $6000 USD, and I do kind of want to preserve the RGB as if I were to spend this much money on a PC, it might as well look cool. And it can be used to monitor system temperature and fan speeds. In theory. EDIT: I should also point out that I would at least make an attempt at overclocking both processors, so it's a matter of which can achieve the least bottle-necking and the best game design productivity and gaming performance when testing high fidelity games (or playing other games for inspiration).