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Hi everyone,
my recent (and terribly failed) attempt to upgrade pc is forcing me to speed up building my new rig, which i would like to have built around three tasks: gaming, film editing and virtualization. Which generally means a ton of cores and threads, multiple gpu's and a lot of storage capabilities. And i should probably mention two more things: would prefer it to be mostly AMD build and windows will be used only in VirtualBox/some other virtualization tool
And one more thing - this is going to be long project ?
My initial thoughts look like this:

cpu: ryzen 9 (I said initial thoughts ;) )

mobo: x370 taichi/x470 fatal1ty (I'm not sure about it, but i would more like higher grade, previous gen mobo than new one, mostly because i'm not keen on those new features so much and my budget will be stretched too much to consider very high frequency ddr4)

host gpu: vega 56 / 1080 if navi doesn't work out as good as expected

guest gpu: some navi stuff (probably the one that matches radeon VII) after it launches or vega 56 if navi doesn't work out as good as expected
boot drive nvme ssd - 250gb - would love to hear suggestions from you

windows 10 VM - crucial mx500 500gb (sata)

windows 7 VM - some 120gb goodram m2 ssd i do have in my storage (just for anything with compatibility issues)

more storage options i would like to hear from you about
1tb sata ssd for main storage

2x 2tb hdd in raid1 for some vault-like storage

 

for cpu cooling i think i will go with noctua nh-d15

 

and here is the end of my ideas, i will love to read some ideas for ram, psu and case (one more note though, i do prefer silence over airflow and rgb is not my thing)


What fo you think? Does this make any sense?
thanks for all answers ?

 

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One has to start with a budget and well defined goals. What sticks out to me is the desire for virtualization involving multiple gpu, etc. How many concurrent VM are contemplated and what will they be doing?

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On 5/15/2019 at 4:00 PM, brob said:

One has to start with a budget and well defined goals. What sticks out to me is the desire for virtualization involving multiple gpu, etc. How many concurrent VM are contemplated and what will they be doing?

Bugdet: as I said, i'm commited to building it for quite a long  time, byt if i have to name a price, i will say something around 1400-1750$ (i should mention here that I'm from Poland, wich means that prices of everything hardware related is higher, and as value of USD can vary from time to time, it means i will probably get worse deals than i think i will)
Specific goals: 2/3 concurrent VM, involved in photo/film (4k) editing and gaming (most likely at 1440p) at the same time, probably 3D rendering from time to time, compiling source code, and breaking diffrent distros in VM, maybe some lan patries in 2 gamers, one pc style

until now I've been using VM for much sipmlier tasks (testing distros, software and updates before installing them) mostly due to hardware limitations (my i5-4670k clocked at 4,1 ghz can bottleneck in some situations, and my mobo probably doesn't like higher OC), so if i'm missing some core components for tasks like this i would be thankful for tips 

thank you for answer btw

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