Current rig and future proofing question

[StellarLight]

1 x RTX 2080 MSI

AMD Ryzen 9 3950x cooled with H115i AIO

4 x 32GB DDR4 CL16 RAM @ 3333MHz (128GB total)

B450 Tomahawk

1Tb m.2

512Gb ssd

8Tb external hard drive

Random Broadcom 802.11AC Wifi 5 card (directly above the wifi router in the floor below me)

all housed in Phanteks Enthoo Pro full tower black

 

if i could upgrade anything what would you all recommend. Use is for 3d modeling, 3d printing, gaming, movies  and programming...some times all at once as i will have stuff going in the background as i do other things.

 

[StellarLight]

also before any one asks, anything that i upgrade on my machine gets reused in the family desktop and the one from there is either recycled or given away. usually ancient in computer terms by that point. Both computers are also used for vr though the setup is currently on the family computer...

[emosun]

Well in terms of future proofing you could go with a better board that supports more than one cpu so when multicore software is released in the future it will take advantage of it better than your single cpu setup

[StellarLight]

28 minutes ago, emosun said:

Well in terms of future proofing you could go with a better board that supports more than one cpu so when multicore software is released in the future it will take advantage of it better than your single cpu setup

lol....and here i was thinking a 16 core was good enough for multithreaded applications. a better board isnt a bad idea though. prob get rid of the problematic wifi card....linux didnt like it and i had to twist its arm to work (back when i played with linux for a bit....)

 

any thoughts on a good upgrade for the motherboard? or would it be best to get a full gaming rig designed that uses a lower faster cpu and such but lacks the threads for all the other stuff i do? so many things to consider

[emosun]

Well in all honesty , nobody in 2009 could really think of a practical use for a 12 core 24 thread machine , but am I glad I chose that platform and still use it in 2021? Yes.

If you want to opt for just a single socket machine again you can , but that's where my knowledge pretty much ends as far as future proofing a machine for at least a decade. I'm not aware of any other way to prolong a platforms life that isn't rather short term.

[StellarLight]

11 minutes ago, emosun said:

Well in all honesty , nobody in 2009 could really think of a practical use for a 12 core 24 thread machine , but am I glad I chose that platform and still use it in 2021? Yes.

If you want to opt for just a single socket machine again you can , but that's where my knowledge pretty much ends as far as future proofing a machine for at least a decade. I'm not aware of any other way to prolong a platforms life that isn't rather short term.

if you could upgrade one thing in that machine what would it be? i keep the thing up to date by upgrading one part at a time and maybe more if needed (like switching when going from intel to amd when ryzen 3 first came out i also needed to upgrade the board)

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, StellarLight said:

if you could upgrade one thing in that machine what would it be?

If my limiting factor was it needing to be a single object and not budget related , then i guess you could change out the gpu.

If I were more liberal with the term"one thing" then I'd change the platform its all on entirely to a server board

[Spoilt]

That socket is pretty much at EOL at this point. No new CPU architecture is supposed to go beyond Zen 3 on AM4. So for future proofing you probably need to wait for next gen socket from AMD that hopefully also comes with DDR 5, PCIE 5, USB 4.

 

From that point forward, you'll be covered for future CPU, RAM, GPU, M.2, TB docks etc upgrades.