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After looking into the motherboard that Grabhanem suggested I found a 10G version which fixed the only complaint I had about the board. thinking of pairing it with the Intel Core i9-9940X Skylake X 14-Core that way i get the 44 lanes we need for this project. I was curious what is the best way to pick out ram and ram speed for a particular motherboard? I was thinking of going with G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 128GB (4 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600. I want to go quad channel and I want 128Gb for what we are doing. But not sure about the speed or not. Also I have heard mixed things between watercooling and a good heat sink i am torn between using a Noctua NH-D15S 140mm SSO2 D-Type Premium CPU Cooler and a EVGA https://www.newegg.com/evga-clc-360-liquid-cooling-system/p/N82E16835288014 let me know if there is something I am overlooking with this combo I got a case and power supply and a m.2 picked out. If anyone wants to change my mind about AMD I am still open I would like to hear from anyone else. Thanks

I will dive into that Thanks Grabhanem! It looks like the LGA-2066 CPU socket can do the 44 lanes that I would need if we upgraded on the path we are thinking... so might fit my bill. From the test I have run the CPU isn't being hit hard by anything we are doing at the moment. Mind you we only have less then half the cameras working that we want to use. Only issue with that board is no 10G LAN. This is good feedback Grabhanem. I will report back after I have researched it more. Chabax - you didn't even read what I wrote... That link is not relevant to what we are doing or what I asked.

Hello, First I want to say I don't need help for a FULL build I just need to figure out the best CPU and motherboard combo for what we are doing... I might want some RAM recommendations too. And of course I am open to other suggestions. Also I want to know if there is anything wrong with the Idea's I putting foreword. I need to build a new computer this week for our live stream setup. We are working on increasing the quality of stream and we need a new PC. I have been battling the question of what CPU to go with for quite some time(3-4 weeks). Our current rig using an i7 4770K on a Asus Maximus VI Hero. And our main issue is that it is running out of PCI lanes/bandwidth to run all the capture cards we have. I thought the best answer would be go AMD thread ripper... I have had issues with AMD in the past BUT I been hearing so many good things about them now... Also they are the only company supporting more PCI lanes which is what we NEED. HOWEVER the only Threadripper Motherboards I have found only has 4 PCI card slots. Which would work but makes upgrades harder... We only need 1 GPU and 2 capture cards for now... However in a few years we might need 1-2 more capture cards and another GPU to run other stage monitors with. That isnt including any extra Network or other expansion cards we might want/need. So I thought about going server board route... The AMD server chips have even more PCI lanes... However the issues with the boards is the I/O on the back we still need/want normal I/O but most of the server boards are super limited making us need the PCI card slots for more addon cards. Also this is a show critical PC and we want/need quick boot/reboot times and server boards are not quick. So now I am thinking of looking back at Intel CPU's and boards... But non of their CPU's have "enough" PCI lanes as I would like to have without spending time validating our use case with the hardware. However I am open and considering Intel CPU and Boards. I would like to hear any recommendations on what you think I should look at or what is known good. I am most leaning towards using a Threadripper 3960X with the GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME OR ASRock TRX40 CREATOR. My issues is that I have had bad experiences with these companies in the past but trust Gigabyte more and Asus the most. Also the reviews for the boards are few and less then 4.5 stars for ones I like. Things I need: - Support for at least 128Gb of ram - Quad channel ram support - 10G network (dual 10G would be nice but 10G+1G would be fine) - minimum of 4 PCI express x16 slots - 2x M.2 slots (or more) - 6x USB 3.0 or faster ports in the back and 2x more USB 2 or higher for keyboard mouse - Need support for at least 33 PCI Gen3 lanes for CPU and at most we need 44 Lanes Gen3 as far as I can guess Budget (including currency): $4,000-$7,000 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Capturing multiple 4k camera inputs (6-12) and live mixing them in real time to stream out to the internet. Also running multiple monitors (2-5), potentially stage wall screens (unknown). Other details: Most monitors will be 1080, 1440, or 4k most likely 1x4k and 2x 1440p monitors Capture Cards we are looking at or might use: Decklink Quad HDMI Recorder - PCI Express 8 lane generation 3 Decklink 8k Pro - PCI Express 8 lane generation 3 Decklink 4k Extreme 12G - PCI Express 8 lane generation 2 Decklink Quad 2 - PCI Express 8 lane generation 2 DeckLink SDI Micro - M.2 PCI Express 1 lane generation 3, compatible with B and M key type 2260 and 2280. GPU(s) for the system: 1-2x NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti Let me know if any further information would be best