Dream Stream Machine but not too Extreme?

DrCreek · February 22, 2019

I'm working on a local community project that has just been approved some funding, I just have 3-4 months before I can get started.

The full project is building a kind of mini YouTube/Local TV (think Public Access TV) but for use by both Local TV and Local YouTubers. With a focus on allowing access to people with various disabilities or conditions, and people with low incomes or people that just are just having a tough time and need some time doing to fun work with people to get back in a good place etc.

Part of it is I've designed a Twitch/YouTube Gamer/Streamers booth. As part if it, I want to have the best possible gaming rig, budget is essentially "unlimited". but by unlimited, in actual fact it is quite limited. But only in the way that it would be nice to save money if possible to spend on extras, like a really nice gaming chair or a nice gaming surface mat etc. But really there isn't a real "limit". So for the sake of creativity, I will not say what the full budget is right now.

But as a listing factor, I would like to ask for suggestions for a build that is the most powerful gaming pc, money can buy, but without reaching the point of stupidity/silliness. The best you would ever possibly need.

For example, max out everything that can be used to push pixels as smooth as possible. and also broadcast/capture them, but nothing that is just for show or for bragging rights. Like if we end up pairing it with a reasonable high spec monitor, say 120/144... any higher than 144 is too extravagant and we can't really stream at higher than 60, and we broadcast TV at 50hz rates, being PAL. But we'd like to be able to offer the experience of trying out the best. So anything that can hold 60FPS on highest settings at 4K/1440p for most titles, is ideal. 120 is nice but anything that tried to push higher I think would be greedy.

I also would prefer it to be as quiet as possible, and I'm looking at everything from mouse and keyboard to the PSU and screen.

So what would your Stream Dream Machine be?

Other rules for this build:

- Nothing that needs anything complicated or extra work or special skills to install or to maintain. Like complicated/custom Water-cooling.

- It can be as RGB or Non-RGB as you like. I wouldn't mind. But as long as it can be switched off for people that don't want it, it's all awesome.

- No Overlocking, unless it is a super simple little tweak and it makes more sense to have that particular set up. But no de-lidding or other warranty voiding shenanigans, unfortunately.

- The project will run for a minimum of 3 years, so if something doesn't make sense right now, but I will be happy that I added it in 2.5 years. So that could mean, overpowering it now, for "future proofing" or even slightly under-powering it, but with hardware that is easy to upgrade in 18-22 months time.

- Anything that can be added to save time or make it more convenient. (Like Octane m.2 to "make go fast") is welcome.
- Anything that has recently been announced but not released is fine, I won't have to have this ready until Aug/Sept.

- Feel free to make a reasonable best guess for future prices for stuff, I will have a little headroom for stuff like future upgrades.

I used to build my own gaming machines, but it's been a while, let's just say, my last GFX card was an ATI.

But an example of a basic build I was going to go for is:

Intel 9900K (seems to be more than enough and way cheaper than the "X-Class" extremes, but not against going AMD for CPU if it makes sense in the long term)

48GB of RAM with 16 set to Cache/RamDisk, maybe up to 64 with 32gb ramdisk if it made more sense for memory channel pairing etc.

2 x RTX 2080 Ti with NVLink (or one now and then add a second half way though year two if things are looking slow)

1 x 32GB Octane

1TB SSD (Or 2x 500GB Evo pros on Raid 0) Boot Drive

8TB HDD (again 2 4TB on Raid 0 Game Library Drive)

(The madness of the storage setup is a theory I have to set up this and by using PrimoCache to build multiple layers of Caching to make an attempt to automatically optimise it for me. Even if it doesn't work so well, there will be plenty of ram for the future and that or a similar set up should work pretty snappy as it is, and have few storage bottleneck issues. But if someone has a simpler and more sensible suggestion, please let me know.)

TH3R34P3R · February 22, 2019

13 minutes ago, DrCreek said:

So what would your Stream Dream Machine be?

Acer Predator Thronos. carries a 10000 dollar price tag and gets you everything.

DrCreek · February 22, 2019

14 minutes ago, TH3R34P3R said:

Acer Predator Thronos. carries a 10000 dollar price tag and gets you everything.

While that is tempting, we have to make it accessible. So it will have to be on a office style "standing" desk so it can lowered or raised for people in wheelchairs for example.

TH3R34P3R · February 22, 2019

16 minutes ago, DrCreek said:

While that is tempting, we have to make it accessible. So it will have to be on a office style "standing" desk so it can lowered or raised for people in wheelchairs for example.

ahhh damn ok. gimme a second and ill whip a design up.

TH3R34P3R · February 22, 2019

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$525.89 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Corsair - H150i PRO 47.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$139.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS MASTER ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$294.88 @ OutletPC
Memory	G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$200.98 @ Newegg Business
Memory	G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$200.98 @ Newegg Business
Storage	Samsung - 970 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$347.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 4 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$697.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - IronWolf 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$299.80 @ OutletPC
Video Card	EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI)	$1399.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI)	$1399.99 @ Amazon
Case	Corsair - Obsidian 500D RGB SE ATX Mid Tower Case	$249.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair - 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$409.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus - ROG SWIFT PG348Q 34.0" 3440x1440 100 Hz Monitor	$899.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus - ROG SWIFT PG27UQ 27.0" 3840x2160 144 Hz Monitor	$1898.99 @ B&H
Keyboard	Corsair - K95 RGB PLATINUM Wired Gaming Keyboard	$179.50 @ Amazon
Mouse	Logitech - G502 HERO Wired Optical Mouse	$67.99 @ Amazon
Headphones	Sennheiser - HD700 Headphones	$494.94 @ Amazon
Other	Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone - Blackout Edition	$103.00 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$9862.87
	Mail-in rebates	-$50.00
	Total	$9812.87
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-22 12:32 EST-0500

@DrCreek

the godliest gaming computer with the best peripherals. this will run probably enough fps in almost any game you can throw at it. 4k 144hz, and a 1440p Ultrawide (for racing or whatnot) 100hz. dual 2080ti, 9900k on arguably the best ATX z390 board, a 360mm AIO, 5tb of SSD and 10tb of HDD, and 64gb of RGB ram, simply because well, optane and caching ram is useless just leave it as regular ram.

DrCreek · February 23, 2019

Thank you!

That looks ideal!

I’ll save this component list but might bump the thread around April just to check in if anything isn’t available or if anything new has come out that would be better to swap.

Thanks a bunch!