Which CPU is best for me?

[ChadTheCreatorRbx]

Howdy LTT, 

 

This is my first post here, but I’ll try to keep it short. I’m looking to water cool my PC in the next year or 2 because I enjoy cool temperatures and tinkering. But before that, I’d like to know I have a CPU that would benefit my workload. Currently, my daily workload, usually all at once, includes:

- 8 to 14 chrome tabs open, at least one playing music/video 

- Streamlabs OBS, streaming while doing the other tasks here

- 4 to 6 3D Game development applications w/ ongoing in-studio connection to other developers. I frequently run an extra 2 or 3 if I’m doing a live server test 

- Image editing software 

- Video editing software

 

I’m not fully aware of how much these tasks eat up my system, but for reference I know that on an i5-6500 my CPU usage is at around 70 to 80% and with 8 GB of RAM my memory usage is a little higher than that.

 

My budget is roughly $4k for a new CPU, new RAM, and new motherboard, but I’d like to not hit that limit. Would a TR 3970X be overkill? What about an i9 9900K? How much RAM is necessary for these tasks? What motherboard would handle all this best? 
 

Thank you and I appreciate any and all responses:D

[Slottr]

What gpu(s) do you plan on using?

[Letgomyleghoe]

and dont even think about the 9900k, 3970 is probably overkill, im sure a 3950x will be just fine. tr40 mobos are very very expensive to.

 

since you have so many 3d development apps open, 32gb of ram or more seems like it would be pretty decent.

 

a higher end gigabyte or asus x570 board will be good if you decide to go with a 3950x, if your looking for a a top of the line x570, the asus crosshair viii hero will be great.

 

and a 3950x, 32 gb of ram, a 2080 ti, and peripherals should be less than 4k unless you spend a bunch of money on aesthetics or stuff you dont neeed

[ChadTheCreatorRbx]

17 minutes ago, Slottr said:

What gpu(s) do you plan on using?

Thanks for the reply! I’ll be using either an RTX 2080 Ti or an RTX Titan(?) although I’m not entirely sure if a Titan is worth it. I definitely render/display a ton of stuff on my screen with my development applications. I play games on the Vive sometimes but I really don’t play desktop games all that often. Still, it’d be nice to be able to run games at max settings. 
 

I’ve been considering using a dual GPU setup but every article I read online only mentions gaming. Are 2, 3, or 4 GPU rigs truly only for gaming? 

[ChadTheCreatorRbx]

8 minutes ago, scuff gang said:

and dont even think about the 9900k, 3970 is probably overkill, im sure a 3950x will be just fine. tr40 mobos are very very expensive to.

 

since you have so many 3d development apps open, 32gb of ram or more seems like it would be pretty decent.

 

a higher end gigabyte or asus x570 board will be good if you decide to go with a 3950x, if your looking for a a top of the line x570, the asus crosshair viii hero will be great.

 

and a 3950x, 32 gb of ram, a 2080 ti, and peripherals should be less than 4k unless you spend a bunch of money on aesthetics or stuff you dont neeed

I’d love to go all-out with RGB stuff and water cooling, although I know that stuff is just for aesthetics mostly. So you say a 3950x, huh? I’m fine with shelling out for TR stuff, I just wanna know really if it’ll benefit me at all. I’ve heard TR single thread processing isn’t as great as usual but I’m not sure how that applies to me. 

[Slottr]

8 minutes ago, ChadTheCreatorRbx said:

Thanks for the reply! I’ll be using either an RTX 2080 Ti or an RTX Titan(?) although I’m not entirely sure if a Titan is worth it. I definitely render/display a ton of stuff on my screen with my development applications. I play games on the Vive sometimes but I really don’t play desktop games all that often. Still, it’d be nice to be able to run games at max settings. 
 

I’ve been considering using a dual GPU setup but every article I read online only mentions gaming. Are 2, 3, or 4 GPU rigs truly only for gaming? 

Does the software you use support dual gpus?

 

And no, dual gpus is almost redundant nowadays- barely any games support it. Only reason you would do so is if you are using them to render or something

[ChadTheCreatorRbx]

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Does the software you use support dual gpus?

 

And no, dual gpus is almost redundant nowadays- barely any games support it. Only reason you would do so is if you are using them to render or something

I see. I don’t believe it supports 2+ GPUs currently. Currently my largest windows of the application are displaying around 600k to 1 million polygons, not sure if that’s relevant 

 

Question though: if 2+ GPUs is redundant why do so many enthusiasts have 2 to 4 high-end GPUs spammed in their case? Expensive decorations? 

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 hour ago, ChadTheCreatorRbx said:

I’d love to go all-out with RGB stuff and water cooling, although I know that stuff is just for aesthetics mostly. So you say a 3950x, huh? I’m fine with shelling out for TR stuff, I just wanna know really if it’ll benefit me at all. I’ve heard TR single thread processing isn’t as great as usual but I’m not sure how that applies to me. 

Yeah you should be good without a thread ripper, the 3950x has a decent single core performance, not as shit as the threadrippers, but in your case you won’t really benefit from an extreme single core performance.

[ChadTheCreatorRbx]

1 hour ago, scuff gang said:

Yeah you should be good without a thread ripper, the 3950x has a decent single core performance, not as shit as the threadrippers, but in your case you won’t really benefit from an extreme single core performance.

Ah, thank you for the information. Just to clarify, with all the multitasking going on with my build, are you saying a TR would be beneficial but it’s unnecessary? Or that it would actually be detrimental to have that sort high-end multithread & low-end single thread performance compared to the 3950X? 

[Letgomyleghoe]

55 minutes ago, ChadTheCreatorRbx said:

Ah, thank you for the information. Just to clarify, with all the multitasking going on with my build, are you saying a TR would be beneficial but it’s unnecessary? Or that it would actually be detrimental to have that sort high-end multithread & low-end single thread performance compared to the 3950X? 

So in your use case, where your running multiple tasks at once, you want more cores for all your tasks. So going with a higher core count cpu will be better. (To a point)

 

when your gaming on the other end, you don’t need many cores, you need just a handful of very fast cores.

 

so a threadripper would be beneficial, but I doubt You’ll overload sixteen cores, even with the insane amount of work your doing.