Help Finishing Video Editing PC Upgrade!

[geroc13]

Budget (including currency): $800 (USD)

Country: Argentina

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Blender, Cinema 4D

Already bought:

• Motherboard: AM5 Asus x670e-a Strix ($280)
• Ram: KLEVV CRAS V RGB DDR5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) 6000 MHz CL30 1.35v ($180)
• Secondary M.2: Silicon Power 4TB US75 Nvme PCle Gen4 ($190)
• Cooler: Artic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360mm ($100)
• Case: Antec Flux PRO ($200)

From previous build:

• GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 10gb (Upgrading next year)
• Cache Drive: Silicon Power A55 2TB PCIe Gen3
• PSU: ADATA XPG Core Reactor 850w 80 Plus Gold

Need help choosing:

• CPU: 7950x, 7950x3d, 9950x or 9950x3d
• Primary Drive: Gen 5 for future proofing or Gen 4 2tb m.2 both options with DRAM

Mostly needing help choosing CPU, I been doing a lot of research and I'm concerned about CPU's frying, I know it's mostly on ASRock motherboards but still.

I'm not planning to overclock, but I'm looking forward to undervolt using PBO, manually tweaking EDC, PPT and TDC and using curve optimizer.

I plan on keeping this build for 5 to 6 years so any help is appreciated!

[KidKid]

10 hours ago, geroc13 said:

Budget (including currency): $800 (USD)

Country: Argentina

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Blender, Cinema 4D

Already bought:

• Motherboard: AM5 Asus x670e-a Strix ($280)
• Ram: KLEVV CRAS V RGB DDR5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) 6000 MHz CL30 1.35v ($180)
• Secondary M.2: Silicon Power 4TB US75 Nvme PCle Gen4 ($190)
• Cooler: Artic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360mm ($100)
• Case: Antec Flux PRO ($200)

From previous build:

• GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 10gb (Upgrading next year)
• Cache Drive: Silicon Power A55 2TB PCIe Gen3
• PSU: ADATA XPG Core Reactor 850w 80 Plus Gold

Need help choosing:

• CPU: 7950x, 7950x3d, 9950x or 9950x3d
• Primary Drive: Gen 5 for future proofing or Gen 4 2tb m.2 both options with DRAM

Mostly needing help choosing CPU, I been doing a lot of research and I'm concerned about CPU's frying, I know it's mostly on ASRock motherboards but still.

I'm not planning to overclock, but I'm looking forward to undervolt using PBO, manually tweaking EDC, PPT and TDC and using curve optimizer.

I plan on keeping this build for 5 to 6 years so any help is appreciated!

The 9950X3D is best for your case, but also costs the most. Yes, it would require a relatively beefy cooler, though even the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE would do.

[brob]

10 hours ago, geroc13 said:

CPU: 7950x, 7950x3d, 9950x or 9950x3d

 

If it must be AMD then the 9950X3D, but you really should be considering the Intel 285K. See https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-content-creation-review/.

[KidKid]

9 minutes ago, brob said:

 

If it must be AMD then the 9950X3D, but you really should be considering the Intel 285K. See https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-content-creation-review/.

Yeah, the Intel CPU has more cores, but they aren't all high performance cores but should be fine for one or two CPU intensive tasks and many other smaller background tasks and web tabs.