building a workstation/gaming machine

[Welshale]

Budget (including currency): 10k us dollars

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: computer programing, loot shooter, FPS games, 3rd person shooters and simulation games

Other details :

existing parts: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x, RTX 4070 Ti, 64GB of ram 3400, and 1200 older Power supply,

peripherals are not needed.

going to buy at the end of this year

the resolution for gaming i want to aim for 11520x 2160. 120 refresh rate

Edited August 5, 2024 by Welshale
added a photo of current rig

[Catzzye]

Holy crap, I mean with 10k USD you can pretty much do whatever you want. You already have a bleeding edge CPU, GPU you can upgrade to 4090 and put in much faster RAM, but other than that. Might be better to spend the money elsewhere or just save it.

15 minutes ago, Welshale said:

Budget (including currency): 10k us dollars

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: computer programing, loot shooter, FPS games, 3rd person shooters and simulation games

Other details :

existing parts: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x, RTX 4070 Ti, 64GB of ram 3400, and 1200 older Power supply,

peripherals are not needed.

going to buy at the end of this year

the resolution for gaming i want to aim for 11520x 2160. 120 refresh rate

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

12 minutes ago, Catzzye said:

Holy crap, I mean with 10k USD you can pretty much do whatever you want. You already have a bleeding edge CPU, GPU you can upgrade to 4090 and put in much faster RAM, but other than that. Might be better to spend the money elsewhere or just save it.

Agreed.

 

If anything, upgrading the GPU would make the most sense, but there doesn't really seem to be a huge reason to upgrade, at least to me.

 

@Welshale what kind of workstation tasks are you looking to perform?

[Welshale]

@Crunchy Dragon mostly front end coding and some digital art work. mainly what upgrading i want to do is to change out my monitor situation with a 3 4k monitor surround setup for two reasons. one for the higher res in gaming for detail and for more work space. i do plan to still use the 49 inch monitor for multitasking but over all looking for some ideas what to change. the 49 monitor is 1440p and with most games it cuts out a lot on the bottom. Not to mention watching movie and other media is really hard to do with the 49 because of the ultra wide aspect ratio.

[Welshale]

i just dont know if the 4090 can handle doing both the 11520 x 2160 and having another monitor that is 5120x 1440, also the 4k drawing tablet on the side due to max resolution being 7680 x 4320. will a single 4090 be able to handle that situation? or do i need to switch to a multi gpu and threadripper build for the higher bandwith though the pcie?

[Crunchy Dragon]

5 hours ago, Welshale said:

i just dont know if the 4090 can handle doing both the 11520 x 2160 and having another monitor that is 5120x 1440, also the 4k drawing tablet on the side due to max resolution being 7680 x 4320. will a single 4090 be able to handle that situation? or do i need to switch to a multi gpu and threadripper build for the higher bandwith though the pcie?

Multi GPU would only make sense if you were buying Quadros, and that doesn't really make sense.

 

Threadripper shouldn't be necessary, it sounds like whatever you're up to is more GPU-intensive anyway.

[Welshale]

@Crunchy Dragon for the ryzen 9, what motherboard would you suggest that would have the two pcie x16 lanes for the two graphic cards i would need for the 6 monitors?

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 hours ago, Welshale said:

@Crunchy Dragon for the ryzen 9, what motherboard would you suggest that would have the two pcie x16 lanes for the two graphic cards i would need for the 6 monitors?

Almost no motherboards have two full-speed x16 slots these days, and no consumer CPU has enough PCIe lanes to run two graphics cards at x16 speeds anyway. Nothing you're doing sounds like it'll be very bandwidth-intensive, so you shouldn't need full x16 for both cards. Gaming still hasn't been able to saturate PCIe 3.0 x16, and most graphic design work shouldn't be more GPU-intensive than modern games.

 

Personally, I like Asrock boards the most these days. As long as you're buying something with good VRMs and all the features you want, it should be good to go.

[Welshale]

@Crunchy Dragon i reach out to Invidia and they told me i need to run the two cards at PCIE x16. I am going to link the conversation i had with them in this link. thread ripper is the only platform i know that can handle multi lanes at x16 size that you are correct for the Ryzen 9 not having that ability. but base on what Invidia informed me to run the way i looking for which is 3 monitors at Invidia surround at a res of 11520 x 2160 and have the other three monitors for multi tasking and drawing i would need more then one card and they both need to run at the x16 to have smooth operations. I will also snip the clipping of that conversation stating that both need to be at the x16 

awsome INVIDIA REP conversation.pdf