Thank you LTT

[kw2it]

Needing to build a computer that does rendering and data analysis (I am not a gamer - yet), but not having $10k in my pocket I found that your video on a Ultimate workstation was perfect. For $5,500 I built an AMD 2950X, ASUS Zenith Extreme, 128GB Ripjaws V DDR4 3000, Zotac 2080Ti Amp, 3 - 970 Evo 500MB M.2, 2 - Seagate Ironwolf 2TB HDD, LG 12x Blu-Ray, Cool Master ML360 in a Phanteks Enthoo Pro tower. Without your various videos and instructions I would not have half the machine at that price. Good job and thank you!

[Jurrunio]

30 minutes ago, kw2it said:

ASUS Zenith Extreme,

Could have gone cheaper here, same VRM as pretty much all boards that's not Gigabyte or MSI (some Gigabyte boards are worse, others are better).

 

Aside from possibly overpaying, there's no performance or durability hit though

[kw2it]

Yes I agree Jurrinno, the MB & GPU decisions were the ones I struggled with the most. I looked at some MBs that Linus and Jayz2cents recommended, also took into account those recommendations were affected by who was sponsoring the builds, this one was feature rich and since I was not sure if I needed a second graphics card having 2- PCIe16s slots and the Dimm.2 were factors in my decision.

 

The last time I built a computer was in the 90s when my kids were young & Pentium was the rage. I upgraded those computers numerous times so I figured a couple hundred $ extra for this board was worth it. Other than Winflash being not functional, despite ASUS' claim, I am happy with the board.

 

I may add another graphics card in the future but I need to build a larger render model and monitor the performance before I make that decision. The biggest one I made to date does not tax this graphics card. I have not OC the graphics card yet either, it took a little work to finally get it stable & play nicely with Windows, but I will take that step too before I buy another 2080Ti.

 

Thank you for your comment.

 

[Shreyas1]

7 hours ago, kw2it said:

Yes I agree Jurrinno, the MB & GPU decisions were the ones I struggled with the most. I looked at some MBs that Linus and Jayz2cents recommended, also took into account those recommendations were affected by who was sponsoring the builds, this one was feature rich and since I was not sure if I needed a second graphics card having 2- PCIe16s slots and the Dimm.2 were factors in my decision.

 

The last time I built a computer was in the 90s when my kids were young & Pentium was the rage. I upgraded those computers

 

Normally I don’t care about aesthetics, but seeing as that is a 5.5k build I would at least consider some cable extensions 

 

great build though