Shebbe

Aah, thanks @brob it's much more clear now ;). Glad to see I'd be able to stick with Intel too. Any particular reason to recommend this over the previously mentioned: The ASRock has 10GBe onboard and is cheaper. (EDIT: Asus has it to it seems, sorry about that, still curious on the choice though) Did you pick the 1600W for the headroom for possible 3rd GPU? What would be minimum for that?

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Hey guys, Did some thinking and research. This still worries me for what Intel is offering eventhough it's faster in single-core performance. AMD TR, 64 lanes: 4 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x8/x16, x16/x8/x16/x8) INTEL i9, 44 lanes: If you install CPU with 44 lanes, PCIE1/PCIE2/PCIE3/PCIE5 will run at x16/x8/x16/x0 or x8/x8/x16/x8 If Intel would have had 48 lanes on their cpu's it would make a lot more sense I guess but this is just weird. I think they could've easily pull off 4 extra lanes to get 3 pcie ports running x16. This is quite a limitation in GPU and other card expansions. Or am I understanding something wrong here? I don't know how much lanes stuff like a thunderbolt card or m2 raid cards would occupy how are x0 slots being handled. Through another path or something? I know lanes has to do with data bandwidth but I'm not an expert on these things. Deal is, I definitely plan on getting 2 GPU's and possibly some other pci-e cards maybe even a third GPU in the future. Also, ditch that thunderbolt requirement. As long as I have 10Gbe on the board it's fine. Any thoughts or clarification on that from you guys? Thanks for the help so far!

Thanks @Princess Cadence. I'll consider the Asrock mobo. For the 1080 Ti I'll probably go for the MSI Gaming X version. I personally have the normal 1080 Gaming X and quite happy so far.

Thank you for sharing your expertise! Adobe software is definitely our main realm. I also don't know if more cores would benefit GPU rendering (Octane). Intel it is then! Is it worth anything going for 12 core 9720X instead? Price 10-core €950,- // 12-core €1150,-

Pretty hefty price tag indeed. I always thought Asrock was one of the cheaper options you could get but it seems this featureset is pretty neat. Is it okay to have M2 slots between your pci-e slots? What about temps? Nice that there are 3 of them though. How much Watt do I need for 2x GTX 1080 Ti? I might get a second one later. Are there any higher options worthwhile price/perf ratio? I see a (crazy overpriced probably) Intel Core i9-7980XE. Any thoughts on that compared to Threadripper 1950X?

Thanks @Princess Cadence That would be X299 then correct? What would you recommend then for motherboard. I personally always have used Asus and always been very happy with them.

Hey guys! New here I'm working in a creative agency as Senior Editor / head of post-ish. We currently have an Apple based workflow but my days and love for Apple hardware are completely lost. I want to switch back to Windows and plan to build a new workstation. I've seen some of LTT's workstation upgrade videos and what not but it's still quite unclear for me as of what to really go for that would be futureproof but stable. What would you recommend as of now? (Don't tempt me on upcoming hardware we need it pretty fast). Is X99 still the way to go? Still confused about Intels line-up with X299 etc. What do I do? 80% of my work consists of editing 5K RED footage in Premiere Pro. The rest is After Effects stuff and occasionally Davinci Resolve. We plan to do more 3D too with C4D and Octane Renderer so CUDA is a must. What do I need? A fast stable Windows computer in a solid case. Water or air cooled cpu. What do I think I want? CPU: Probably Intel CPU but anyone know how Ryzen is doing for this type of work? RAM: Minimum 32GB GPU: 1x GTX 1080 Ti (multiple in the future for 3D gpu rendering so need enough power) PSU: High watt high quality PSU MOBO: Motherboard preferably with 10GBe if that exists and thunderbolt if possible. Enough space for 2 GPU's and extra cards like 10GBe port if not onboard. STORAGE: 2x M2 or regular SSD. 1TB for OS. 1TB for Adobe cache etc. CASE: Whichever suits my needs and isn't fancy with rgb-led etc. Budget Unlimited. But keep it within my requirements ofcourse. I think that's about it. I'd love to hear if there's any peeps running a new workstation already, what their config is and how well it's doing. Cheers, Shebbe