New Dream PC 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. I will likely be buying the new 43-inch display from Asus. This is not included in the budget.

 

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!

[amdorintel]

2 minutes ago, VarShayiskhun said:

My budget is in the 5000 to 7500 range

in what currency is that?

 

 

how many cores and threads do you require?

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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.

 

[Turtle Rig]

1 minute ago, amdorintel said:

In what currency is that?

Yes that is a high budget I would like to know as well, to lazy to do it myself.  A dream PC means its gonna have a ton of cores like the 3900x or 3950x coming in about 2 weeks or go HEDT and get the 10980XE @ 4.8Ghz using Turbo Boost 3.0.  It will destroy every CPU out now except for the 32 core desktop and even then it will keep up a bit.  Also when you say Dream PC you autoatmically tell me you not only game but you to productivity as in your OP.  Get more cores.  Grab a 3900x 500 bucks or what Im going to do which is get a Gigabyte Aorus Master x299x and put the 10980XE and turbo boost it to 4.8Ghz and it will kill every CPU in sight.  But if your a lot into gaming and once in a while do light produtivity work then grab a 9900KS assuming you get a Gigabyte board which has better VRM and doesn't get toasty.  Also I would slap on 8 x 8GB on the HEDT if you can wait 2 weeks.  That is a dream CPU not a 8 core consumer CPU.  Also 4.8Ghz is equivlant to a 9900k @ 5Ghz and what not.

[VarShayiskhun]

7 minutes ago, amdorintel said:

in what currency is that?

 

 

how many cores and threads do you require?

 

Canadian Dollars. Probably closer to the 7500. I am looking at minimum 16 cores so if I do not dual boot I can run the Linux environment in a VM with a minimal performance degradation. If I run VM’s it will be in VMWare Workstation.

[VarShayiskhun]

4 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

Yes that is a high budget I would like to know as well, to lazy to do it myself.  A dream PC means its gonna have a ton of cores like the 3900x or 3950x coming in about 2 weeks or go HEDT and get the 10980XE @ 4.8Ghz using Turbo Boost 3.0.  It will destroy every CPU out now except for the 32 core desktop and even then it will keep up a bit.  Also when you say Dream PC you autoatmically tell me you not only game but you to productivity as in your OP.  Get more cores.  Grab a 3900x 500 bucks or what Im going to do which is get a Gigabyte Aorus Master x299x and put the 10980XE and turbo boost it to 4.8Ghz and it will kill every CPU in sight.  But if your a lot into gaming and once in a while do light produtivity work then grab a 9900KS assuming you get a Gigabyte board which has better VRM and doesn't get toasty.  Also I would slap on 8 x 8GB on the HEDT if you can wait 2 weeks.  That is a dream CPU not a 8 core consumer CPU.  Also 4.8Ghz is equivlant to a 9900k @ 5Ghz and what not.

I looked at the 9900KS but the reason I am not looking at the consumer platforms is the smaller number of PCI lanes. I will need the extra lanes to run more NVMe drives at full speed.