New Gaming / Workstation Build

[VarShayiskhun]

Hey everyone,

 

I am looking for everyone’s opinions and maybe some advice on my new build. I am looking to build what is essentially my dream PC. I will be using it for 4K gaming, some video editing I do for friends, as well as handling some security testing of large databases and encryption testing. My budget is in the 5000 to 7500 range. I have a few part I scored at some local wicked sales. The parts I currently have are four WD Black 6TB drives, a 500GB WD Black NVMe drive I am going to use for the boot/OS drive ( will likely dual boot a variation of Linux as well as Windows 10) as well as 32GB of Dominator Platinum RGB 3200 ram. I know I may need more RAM and can sell this kit easily if need be.

 

I am open to both the Threadripper 3 platform and the new Cascade Lake chips as well. I am looking at the HEDT platforms for the expanded PCI lanes as I am looking to do PCI storage for a 2TB gaming drive and a 2TB scratch/storage drive. I will be going NVIDIA for the GPU.

 

So beyond what I have mentioned above I am looking for all opinions on what I should go with and your guys opinions on your stability/issues with the previous versions of these platforms!!

 

Thanks for all your help!

[VarShayiskhun]

I apologize for the wrong section for this. Will be re-posting in the build guide section.