fluppagus

Thanks for all the help everyone. I think I've gotten all the info I need to make a decision. I've revised the AMD build based off the advice here and got it down to a price point similar to the suggested Intel build. If forwarded them to my sister so she can make her decision when the time comes

She will be able to claim this at least a little on tax (I'm no expert on that sort of thing). I will admit I was kinda aiming for overkill when I threw the pieces together. I chose that motherboard mostly because it was the only one with 3 m.2 slots and it would definitely be able to throw whatever overclock I managed to get stable on the chip. Again I made that choice as deliberate overkill so thats probably a good place to save a few bucks. Dropping down to the 2080 super is probably a good idea. The HDD probably doesn't need to be that big (again I was just going for overkill), and if running multiple drives in raid is better thats not something I have a lot of experience with. I had intended for the main storage to be the 3 2TB NVMe drives with the HDD being for long term storage. With the power supply again my choice was mostly overkill. I have an 850W in my own system and I put that together about 4-5 years ago, so no biggy dropping it down the one that would go in this down to something similar. If I was to switch to an Intel cpu which ones would I be looking at? I don't have any experience with quicksync beyond a quick look at the wikipedia page. Thanks for the advice so far

Hi everyone. My sister has requested my assistance in designing a computer for productivity work. She’s a graphic designer by trade and uses most of the adobe suite - Lightroom, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects being the main ones, with the possibility to using Character Animator and Blender down the road. Now normally she would buy the most recent iMac Pro and call It a day. But I felt I could do better, if only the thermals. For reference a starter iMac Pro starts at about $7300 AUD So I threw together what I imagined to be a decent system on PC Case Gear, which ended up in the same price range as an iMac Pro and I found a monitor which I think will work well. Mostly what I hoping for here is to get opinions on how well I’ve done. Did I over do it? Is there some considerations I’ve missed? Are there parts that would do a better job for the same or less? Thanks in advance! https://www.pccasegear.com/wish_lists/999217/Productivity PC https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-monitor-up3218k/apd/210-alez/monitors-monitor-accessories?fbclid=IwAR1Bd5yzt5UpaiAdUMu6wNTaDGM7R2kLtbTA6Rb_MVuYgD8BiG3UeyJxr0U