I am trying to build a new rig, for school. I know the best idea, is to wait till black friday, but distance, to how slow my current rig is impacting my homework, it's almost not worth it, in the wait somewhat.
Any help, thank you, early on.
My original rigs from 2010-2012, on a ASUS 990 3.0 FX, with a AMD 8350 with a Corsair H110i V2, which support AM4 and 2066, no TR4.
Strange Factors;
My current rigs run a 4 x Intel SSD 540 480 gig x Adaptech Raid Card 6805E, to a PCI E 1x or 4x, don't remember, or can't tell.
I use my USB-C to power my focus-rite music recording interface. Having 2 actual Thunderbolt port would be awesome, why isn't it common or I haven't seen one?
I run 6 monitors, off 1 Double slot gaming card, and a Single slot 730 GT. I am Nvidia, and I have do not know of if workstation cards will play nice with gaming cards. Never had enough money to find out.
I have other cards, I would like to use, like a E-MU 1x music card, or 1x PCI TV Cards I have, or a nice audio card, if my USB C is taken to my focusrite unit.
I run everyl large piece of software. ADOBE, 4k. Autocad, Protools, Dragon Naturally Speaking all at once, at times.
I have a case and power easily for anything. Thermal Take WP-200 and 1200 Platinum EVGA.
I have to give the bottom slot, or 2 slots for the raid card, because of the 40mm x 40mm Fan, or have to find a water cooling solution.
I am looking at 2066, because at the end of the chip-set, I could move from a $400 I7 to a I9 on sale, and keep the same rig. 2066 seems faster than investing in a AM4 socket board.
Is quad ram worth it? Right off the bat? Should I get a dual, and another set black friday? Do 2 dual set operate as a quad set when 4 sticks present? What the best mhz? 32 or 64gig?
I am looking at high end ASUS Board, or the EVGA dark,. I do not need Bluetooth on board (having a dongle on the desk insures newest standard and closest to phone, and whatever items) or WIFI, (I always plug in)
So I am completely lost by, if you occupy this or that, than it shares this lane and that lane, etc. I was hoping someone else knew it at the tip of their tongue.
So sometimes it limits it if you use the sata. I generally don't use the onboard sata, turn it off and use raid card with 4 ssd, raid 1+0, and 2 4tb mirror and 2 3tb mirror.
So if I mitigate the array, I didn't know if dual NVME in mirror will be faster, and moving the array with some copy software.
Why do I need the redundancy, I have limited install on certain music and other software, and I really can't lose my work. I always stayed with a 5 year warranty drive and raid 1 + 0.
So I pray to the computer gods and Deep Thought! I have my towel and am ready to recieve the knowledge! (Hitch Hikers Fan)
Thanks all, Ahead of time,
AKV