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Thanks for the advice. Going to think about it and do more research tonight.

I was looking at the specs on pcpartbuilder and it indicated it didn't support ecc. Must be a typo. I'm going to go check out the ASUS site for better info. I was looking up some reviews for the wx 5100 on newegg and several mentioned it was noisy and ran hot. I'm concerned the noise might be an issue, any ideas or just go with one of the other cards?

Yeah, i'll look at my final pricing and decide on one or two sets. Any benefits for the WS board over the Gaming one aside from price?

I'll have a closer look at the WX 5100. Why the 3000MHz ram rather than 3200MHz? I thought Ryzen 3 parts did better at the slightly higher clock?

Looks interesting, i'll go start looking into the parts. Why the Radeon card over the 2060? I don't expect i'll neeed the performance. nm, you answered already.

It will be primarily for office work. I would expect a normal load to be 2-5 excel sheets, 1-2 Sage 50 companies, 3-5 Caseware (Accounting LOB app) company files, chrome with 8-30 tabs (including music\video), Tax software for the company(s) being reviewed, Outlook and probably a couple of word files. Nothing that requires a lot of power, but I am trying to optimize for file open. All files client files reside on a local server, I think network speed will be my largest bottleneck. It does not have to look amazing, it should fade into the background. I do get regular Dell towers for general staff, just for the warranty support.

I've been given a task to update an executive pc and have been given a budget of $2500-3000 CAD before tax. The workstation already will reuse the existing Keyboard\Mouse setup as well as 3x Dell 24" 1200P monitors that connect via DisplayPort. They will be running many apps simultaneously, with an expected ram load of 6-10GB regularly. This machine will not be used for gaming, I picked the graphics card mainly for having 3x DP. I'm planning on using the included cooler as I'm not planning on OC, but wouldn't be averse to using something better. I prefer to source all my parts from a single vendor, and I am currently planning on purchasing everything from NewEgg Canada. I've been looking at Ryzen 9 builds a bit, and have come up with this parts list. I'm not locked into any particular part, but I do have preferred brands like ASUS, Samsung, Seasonic. I have built 3 other machines with the Meshify S2 case and I am happy with it. Here is the pcpartpicker link. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $669.75 @ shopRBC Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $499.00 @ Canada Computers Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $219.00 @ Amazon Canada Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $295.70 @ Amazon Canada Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB OC Video Card $479.99 @ Memory Express Case Fractal Design Meshify S2 ATX Mid Tower Case $149.99 @ Canada Computers Power Supply SeaSonic PRIME Ultra Titanium 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $279.99 @ Amazon Canada Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2593.42 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-01 16:33 EDT-0400 Thanks!