Clare

Well i didnt intend for it seem like oh hey i have tons of money so i need to spend more. It was to say that the board lacks ez of use features and expandability which i laid out in the response. I do plan to overclock in the future but nothing major do to it being a newer path to me. I want a board with many m.2 slots code display many usb ports ready to hold 2 gpus and ready for a waterloop and ready for a 2 560mm radiators plus rgb controls so i dont see that in a 170 board.

interesting im sure i remember someone saying that optix produced worse renders but maybe they were wrong it seems far faster

Well on am5 isnt 13900k better than 7950x since it has more cores and for Rdna3 you think they could beat nvidia in blender. i only prefer nvidia for blender and stability.

I also want this to be a end all be all computer for the sake that i wont have to upgrade or worry about large projects taking 30 days to render for the next 5 years

so this is what im thinking to. even if i got the threadripper 5955wx for over a grand it has less cores and threads than a 13900k

"Bc i like it not bc its good" A true pc enthusiast

The words older older and new pc kinda got me scared i still plan to use this as a daily driver

Are you talking about a Threadripper is that really an option with the ones i saw being 5 grand on their own

absolutely agree with windows not being a fan of so many things pluged in i have even go to the point of the computer out right not accepting more usb devices in the past

well not to sounds crazy but 2 keyboards, 2 mice, headphones, focusrite for my mic, and console controller for games is normal, vr headset, my cintiq

ok so then im my wants for the computer would it not be better then to have 2 3090s so i can game on one and render with the other in sometimes and render with both other times?

im looking at the boards now, looking at the asrock it seems a little lesser so being less usb ports, no code display. im truely looking for something that is more if that makes sense.

oooooohhh! so then as i understand it more vram is good for rendering would it be better to jus tgo 4090 or 3090 plus 7900xt or something else for best render times

so then if i had a nvlink i could not use there vram together to render faster?

the board supports 3 m.2 so i was gonna get 3 in the end. also do you think it would be better to render with a amd card over a nvidia for blender bc my plan is to not use sli but to have 2 separate cards doing 2 different things

the 4090 at best will be 1600 where if i buy 2 3090s its around 19-1800 and I get far more vram for rendering. Im not sure what you mean about the mother board can you explain.

I plan to game on one but with the other use for streaming or rendering while I play games at the same time

sure iI can post for most of the parts the only reason I didnt was because it doesnt show any waterloop items

Budget (including currency): 5500 and under Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Python, C++, Vr and Regular games. Other details Here is my parts list please let me know if I forgot anything or anything I could do better. Case: Tower 900 = $264 Cpu: 13900k = $695 Ram: G.Skill Trident Z5 = $270 Gpu: Zotac 3090 = $980 X2 Psu: Evga 1600 t2 = $380 MB: MAXIMUS Z690 HERO = $650 Storage: SAMSUNG 980 PRO 2Tb = $220 Water cooling Pump1: Alphacool 13324 Eisball = $200 Pump2: Bykski PC DDC Pump = $250 Motor: Alphacool 13294 Eispumpe VPP755 = $80 Gpu Block: EKWB EK-Quantum Vector Trinity = $142 Cpu Block: Thermaltake Pacific MX2 = $180 Hardline: Thermaltake V-Tubler PETG Tube = $30 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2TgJPX

I agree as I am new to taking this direction I feel it is best to sit 1 on 1 with someone who knows better than me. That can be hard to come by in some aspects but I will do my best. I have always been far more interested and use to hardware and maintenance of personal and work computers. leaving that to go into the cyber space is undoubtedly difficult. I do believe in my ability to learn and grow with the expansion. Since I will be given almost full control of the section of business and having a close relationship with the owner I also feel I can control the speed of growth to be manageable and allow me to grow with it.

Agreed the way I was doing things was slow and inconvenient but originally I was only in charge of 1 small branch of the company so had far less numbers to control and had physical access to the PCs at all times. I do apologies for my snappy remark as at the time you were the 5th person to come with less of do this or try this because x y z and with the compounding people saying I can't do this or acting rude made me feel as if I was being attack for 1 question just because I wanted to peer review my thoughts. I have since figured out a new system of management and monitoring with out the need of many programs and direct access to the complete PC's information. I also have narrowed done my software to more leading and common MSP users. I plan to also lower the number of hardware devices connected to the network and want to look into going with a UTM. I will have to figure out some research on them to see who is leading the industry but Fortinet is appearing a lot and seems reliable so doubling up should provide a strong barrier.

Totally right there is no such thing as a perfect system let alone a 100% secure anything on the connected world, was never made to be and likely never will be. I do understand your position and was only trying to get across that we don't chose what people want and more is always better to most of them. But I was also trying shift back to the topic only because I didn't see the conversion producing and benefit other than to act as if the question had deeper meaning in a way that I was getting a feeling of being told that if I had to ask then I was in the wrong which I never agree with that a question is wrong or not a good way to gather new information (cant know everything) and Tech changes too fast for anyone person.

Yes I was just about to say I have been looking into 356 E5 for a possible shift in how I'm manage the systems as it seems far easier than getting lots of tickets of small things.

I have never used a management system before, is there one you recommend. I have always down everything as the admin of the software and just given access to the information as needed. The number of computers right now are just under 100. As for compliance nothing has been given at this time.

Wouldn't me knowing their password be a benefit being that most password managers if you forget you master key lock you out entirely. So then if I want to give them the freedom of their own password would that not lead me to being unable to help them in the case of it being lost. Or do I let them have personal passwords that I don't not know in everything else but the master key and give them all a password manager on each computer individually. Edit: I'm not sure how I would go about checking on there password security in the Dark Web without having the passwords available in the que for searching.