TheWhiteRose000

I wonder if it is a similar problem I had on my formula board, was getting hung up on the same initialization part due to using too high of a SoC voltage. Mine was just when trying to run 3600 mhz ram with matched fclk. Since you're able to get into the bios try a light negative offset on the SoC and see if it helps. Lots of weird stuff going on with the new boards

Clearly liquid nitrogen for max cooling.

The 3950X will be better by quite a bit, so just get that and don't upgrade it for a long time.

There's almost NEVER a reason to use placebo preset when encoding. It's pointless.
Those presets are about enabling or disabling features of the encoder in order to improve speed of encoding when you have other constraints like bitrate (maximum bits that can be used within a second)
For recording to disk (Archiving) you can use quality factor mode where you can tell the encoder to compress every frame of the video at a minimum quality level... for example it's like saying save each frame as JPG at 95% quality (usually you should not notice quality loss between 100% and 92-95%). In such mode, the profile you choose just determines how many features or modes the encoder can use to reduce the amount of disk space is gonna be used, it doesn't result in more quality.
So for example, you could use veryfast with qp 5 and you'll get super fast compression but maybe 100 mbps bitrate for 1080p 60fps ... using "veryslow" will result in same quality (because quality is locked through the qp 5 parameter) but maybe bitrate would average 90 mbps and you'll use more cpu.
So you could save the stream to disk in near lossless quality using very little cpu (ultrafast or veryfast profile in x264) and high bitrate (let's say 100mbps for 1080p 60fps and 200-400mbps for 4K) and then you could recompress using "veryslow" preset and more reasonable bitrates like variable 40 mbps for 1080p 60fps (and keep that for upload to youtube or further processing/rendering etc)
 
For streaming, generally the quality improvements are minimal once you go to "slower"... "slow" and "veryslow" presets usually bring very little improvements in quality.90% of the time . Maybe then next 8..20 techniques go within 95-98% of the best result but only happens less than 5% of the time and the other techniques and the last

CPU is well capable for 1080p streaming. I don't know about 4k, but honestly, if you are starting streaming, you don't need 4k. People watch for content, not video quality. You would need to setup NDI or get capture card for using another PC as encoding machine.

It retro-spec if I had just realized the type of memory card an 8K red camera takes, my answer would have been more obvious from the get go.
 

My bad. You're right.
I got around 150MB/s-200MB/s for QHD 60FPS recording when I tried it (faster than HDD though). At 4k it will definitely be more than that but still way bellow NVMe speeds. At 8k... maybe there you actually need NVMe as SATA SSD may not be enough.

Yeah I was wrong it's Mbps not kbps. 
Look, you can try it for yourself in OBS. Just use one of the lossless presets in the simplified capture tab

Then yeah 1TB sounds like a good purchase if it doesn't cost too much and if the cost isn't costing you elsewhere in other parts of your life
 
Unless the lossless recording is approaching 3GB/s I don't see how that saturates an NVME drive.  The warning when switching to lossless says upwards of 7GB per minute depending on resolution and refresh rate.  That's just 116.66MB a second.

Bitrate is a number of bits dedicated to video in a second.
Typically in Handbrake or OBS its in kbps and since OP mentioned OBS then I meant 1M kbps bitrate. 
 

Don't see why it would improve CPU performance.  Your typical stream recording bitrate wouldn't even necessarily cause problems when recording to a HDD.  The only problems with recording a large file to HDD is the seek time to write to empty space.  A regular SATA SSD already has more than enough bandwidth, write speed and latency to never be an issue for stream quality recording.

You can still get a pair of 16GB sticks in a kit. 3600MHz CL16 or 17 would be the best without going bad value, 3600 CL18 and 19 are not as impressive, budget option will be 3200MHz CL16 and 3000MHz CL15 or CL16

2060 Super - cheapest 8GB card Nvidia still produces
3700X - won't break the bank
X570 board - Asus has the best lineup on the cheap (P and TUF), Gigabyte is not as good but still decent overall, Asrock is only good if you want WiFi 6 (802.11 ax) built-in on the cheaper side of things, MSI is trash until you get to the X570 Tomahawk or and Unify.

Ah. Yeah, for that you would need a 2070 Super or better, most likely.

I have gotten really good performance with my 3700X and 2060 Super, I can barely even imagine a 2080 Ti and 3950X, which would probably rival anything Intel has, or will release within the next couple years.

Honestly, AMD has been rocking it for CPUs recently. Intel has just been more of the same, with little improvement. If you would rather upgrade sooner, you can do 3200 MHtz RAM, an X570 MB, and a 3700x. That would give you an upgrade path to the 3900X and even the 3950X, if that is what you want. 3600 ram is good, but not much of an improvement over 3200.

Yeah, speculation on the 3080 Ti is 16 GB of VRam, which is kind of sickening in a good way, like when you eat way too much good food, and you get a stomach ache but it was totally worth it. I am hoping to upgrade my 3700X to a 3900X later this year, and get a 30 series probably next year once EVGA starts manufacturing 30 series.

With that OC, you should be able to throw a 2080 Ti in there without too much issue, but there is always the face that your CPU is super old, so even then will have some performance reduction over a newer-gen CPU. Also, that DDR-3 ram will only hurt you.

Family should come first. My recommendation is to wait and upgrade your CPU and MB. If you get the 2080 Ti, that will bottleneck you something fierce with that CPU.

That's fair. With the 30 series coming out this year, it might just be best to do the CPU and MB, and offload some of the encoding through the CPU, and once the 30 series releases, they will either be cheaper than the 20 series (I hope) or it will drop the prices of the 20 series even more.

If you OC your CPU to 4.8 Ghz, it should help make it less of a negative, but I do recommend upgrading some time in the future. I just recently bought a 2060 Super to hold me over until the 30 series has worked out it's inevitable teething issues. I don't do videos, but I do stream and it has handled it well.

Editing work is dominantly CPU heavy, so that should go first. That said with your budget you could totally just go mid range on both sides instead of dumping the whole budget on bad value flagships.

Are you looking for used, or new? If you don't mind going used on all parts, you could probably get an X570, 2070 Super, and a 3700X or greater for under $1000. Your RAM will bottleneck you, though.

A 2070s and a 3700x sounds much more reasonable and enjoyable to me, much more balanced.

It is going to be difficult to find a 2080 Ti for under $1000. I have tried. Your GPU is not horrible, and has 8gb of VRAM, so that is not too bad, even if it is a little older. That CPU, though, is SUPER old. Like at least 6 generations of Intel CPUs old. I would recommend a 3900X, X570 MB, and new ram. That would be the best upgrade I can see. Unless you have a major reason to get the 3950X instead, you might as well save a couple hundred dollars and get the 3900X.