planning Help choosing a CPU

[ddennis002]

Doing a build with taxes and i am still up in the air for what CPU or CPU's I want. Looks like $550 is going to be my limit for just the CPU. I have a budget set of $1800 for the computer and another $400 for Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard.

I will be using this for basic tasks, running a few VM's at one time, Plex Server with some on the fly transcoding which I am going to try to use a GPU to get most of that done to take the load off the CPU looking into a RTX 2060 or a Vega 56.

I will be doing video transcoding with handbrake 3-10 videos a day. I will be running ICS for my internet connection so this PC will be always on. I already have a 360mm rad that I will be running in custom loop for cooling.

I will be doing occasional gaming nothing crazy but would be nice to unwind with some first person shooters and racing games once in a while. I will be running a 1440p monitor.

 

Been looking at i9 9900k, ryzen threadripper 2920x, Also been looking on ebay at used dual Xeon's would like E5-26xx v3 so i could use DDR4 memory but if I can get a better clocked E5-26xx v2 I would go that route as well. I care about single thread performance, multi thread, and power consumption as it will be on 24/7 365.

 

Thanks for any thoughts any if you have experience with any of these CPU's please let me know your thoughts and any benchmarks you have done. I love to see real world cinebench scores for Overclocked chips to see what they are capable of.

 

 

EDIT:

I most likely will be getting the CPU new from Microcenter so keep this in mind on pricing. Or ebay if i go with Dual Xeon's

[GoldenLag]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($589.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U12S TR4-SP3 54.97 CFM CPU Cooler  ($69.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard  ($324.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($89.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($89.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($57.99 @ Adorama) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB GAMING Video Card  ($348.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Fractal Design - Arc Midi ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($104.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1786.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-31 03:08 EST-0500

 

something along the lines of this i presume. 

 

casechoice is if you ever wanted a storage server.........

[LukeSavenije]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core Processor	$168.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$110.33 @ OutletPC
Memory	Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$89.99 @ Newegg Business
Storage	Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$57.99 @ Adorama
Video Card	Sapphire - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8 GB Video Card	$394.99 @ Newegg
Case	Cooler Master - MasterBox MB511 RGB ATX Mid Tower Case	$65.98 @ Newegg Business
Power Supply	Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$69.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$998.16
	Mail-in rebates	-$40.00
	Total	$958.16
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-31 03:11 EST-0500

I'll add this list, but i agree on @GoldenLags too