Zen 4 workstation Workstation

[TraxXavier]

What do you think about the following Workstation:

 

Komponente	Bezeichnung	Stück			Referenz
CPU	AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7975WX	1			AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7975WX, 32C/64T, 4.00-5.30GHz, boxed ohne Kühler ab € 3989,00 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich
RAM	Kingston Server Premier RDIMM 64GB, DDR5-4800, reg ECC	8			Kingston Server Premier RDIMM 64GB, DDR5-4800 ab € 244,72 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich
MoBo	ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE	1			https://geizhals.eu/asus-pro-ws-wrx…html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
GraKa	MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X 16G, 16GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP	1			https://geizhals.at/msi-geforce-rtx…html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
SSD	Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 2TB, M.21	1			https://geizhals.at/western-digital…html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
NT	Seasonic Prime PX-1300 1300W ATX 2.4	1			https://geizhals.at/seasonic-prime-…html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
Case	Fractal Design Define 7 XL Black, schallgedämmt	1			Fractal Design Define 7 XL Black Solid ab € 204,73 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich

 

 

Since CPU and RAM sizes are fixed and there is only one motherboard that can do this, it leaves the GPU, choice of case, etc.
Storage is not much, but I have a SAN 10Gbit network with an SSD NAS and a few HDD NAS, so the storage is external.

RAM, yes, 512 GB is a lot, but I currently have 256 and they are mostly over 75% full, and the workstation should have reserves. CPU, yes, 32 cores is not that much, but the more core CPUs are not significantly faster: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7975WX vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7985WX vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
There, the 350W is the limiting factor, and overclocking an 8k€ CPU seems a bit irresponsible, I believe.

I have considered an AIO water cooling system, but that’s more because of the noise level; otherwise, I would almost prefer air because it never fails except for fans that can be quickly replaced, whereas with water cooling, the pump can fail, etc.

The intended use for the workstation is development in C/C++, many VMs, and some CAD (not enough to buy a Quadro card).

The GPU should be rather affordable; I do play games occasionally but not that much.
Or maybe an RTX 4070, what I mainly want is a lot of VRAM to make the GPU more future-proof. Or a 4080, given the price of the other components, it doesn’t matter much…
Games I like include DeusEx MD, Witcher 3, CP 2077, Horizon Zero Dawn, just as a reference for what will run on it.
I would then install the GPU in the case with a riser to keep as many of the other slots free for future expansions.

The power supply is only platinum; is it worth paying the extra for the Titanium variant?

So, what do you guys think?

[jaslion]

Any reason a 7950x isnt gonna cut it?

 

Like yeah less cores but do all your vms need like 4 or 8 cores that cannot br shared?

 

I mean this thing is MASSIVELY expensive and for the usrcase you describe I dont really see a real use for this cpu

[TraxXavier]

Well you can't yet stick 512GB ram on a 7950x,

the bigest sticks are 96GB 4x96 -> 384

And thay are super expensive

64 GB sticks are much cheaper per GB