Bioinformatics Build

[Jmbermudez]

Budget (including currency): Around 5,000 USD

Country: Mexico

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Bioinformatics software, R Bioconductor, Illumina RNA-Seq, STAR Aligner, samtools, etc.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Im helping my brother who just finished his Phd on bioinformatics and will most probably be working as freelance when his university grant ends next this year. I want to help him build a good PC so he can do work. lucky he has some freelance jobs lined up so I believe it would be a good investment to get something good.

 

I have in mind a Threadripper 3970X altrought I would probably wait to see what comes out on the Zen 3 presentation. I have a doubt regarding RAM I know that he needs quite a bit of RAM but I was wondering regarding the usage of getting ECC UDIMMs instead of regular RAM.

 

His currently lab computer form the university is a Mac Pro circa 2012 with dual 6-cores Xeons, so I guess the Threadripper would wipe the floor with this.

 

Any thougts or suggestions, I have never build a Threadripper nor used ECC Ram

 

Thanks