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New workstation w/ W7-3465x, +$10k budget

Budget (including currency): >$10,000 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Virtual machines, video editing, emulation

 

Parts currently in transit:
CPU: Intel Xeon w7-3465x

Motherboard: ASUS Pro WS W790 SAGE SE

RAM: G.SKILL Zeta R5 Series 128GB (8 x 16GB) ECC Registered DDR5 6400
GPU: MSI Suprim Liquid X GeForce RTX 4090

Case: Phanteks Enthoo 719 Full Tower
Monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG43UQ 43"
PSU: Seasonic PRIME TX-1300
2x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

Parts to purchase before years end:
HighPoint SSD7540 PCI-Express PCIe 4.0 x16 8-Port M.2 NVMe RAID Controller
more Samsung 990 Pro 2TB to fill the highpoint card
2 x PCI-E Gen 5 nvme SSD's (Whichever is best at time of purchase.
handful of HDD's to run in RAID for data storage.
Upgrade the CPU to the w9-3495x

Current issues:
The case: The case that I chose was really the best I could find, but it is far from ideal. It is difficult to find a case that can handle the size of the motherboard that I am getting, and then to also find one that can hold dual PSU's. This can do that, and even has the extra slots for if you put your video card on a riser like I plan to do eventually. My biggest complaint about the case is that there are no 5.25" front expansion bays.
I rather hope someone else will show me a better option.

 

PSU: The PSU I chose is really a bad option. 1,300 watts is just too low when the motherboard manual lists 1,500 watts as a minimum. It also is not ATX3.0 and no PCI-E gen 5 power connector. Ideally, I would find a 1,500+ watt PSU that is ATX3.0, PCI-E gen 5, and also does SMBus and IPMI, but so far I have not found a power supply that does all of that. Actually, I have not found any power supply that is ATX3.0 and has SMBus.

 

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Could you maybe rack mount it? Idk if that would give you more or less space to be honest. 

My PC Specs: (expand to view)

 

 

Main Gaming Machine

CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K - OC to 5 GHz All Cores
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H115i RGB Pro XT (Front Mounted AIO)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS (WI-FI)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600

Storage: Intel 665p 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD (x2)
Video Card: Zotac RTX 3070 8 GB GAMING Twin Edge OC

Power Supply: Corsair RM850 850W
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow
Case Fan 120mm: Noctua F12 PWM 54.97 CFM 120 mm (x1)
Case Fan 140mm: Noctua A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm (x4)
Monitor Main: Asus VG278QR 27.0" 1920x1080 165 Hz
Monitor Vertical: Asus VA27EHE 27.0" 1920x1080 75 Hz

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You might check on availability of used Caselabs cases. Usually pricy, but very configurable and high quality.

 

(caselabs.se is apparently going to start manufacturing based on original designs. No idea when that might happen.)

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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I ended up ordering a Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1650W
It doesn't do IPMI or SMBus nor does it have a 80+ Titanium rating, but it is 1650 watts and atx3.0

But I still need to find a better case. I'm sure not pleased with this one.

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