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New build AMD TR4 or AM4?

Good evening,

 

So I do Music Production, Composition and editing as well as gaming, steaming and occasional photo/video edit but not much.
I would like to know do I need a Threadripper, for this or will a Ryzen 7 suffice?
If I go with Thread Ripper it will be sat in Asus ROG Zenith Extreme X399, this is because it provides all I'd like plus extras should I wish too. 
If I was to go with Ryzen 7 2700x and ASRock - Fatal1ty X470. 

Memory/RAM - I know the ram for the TR4 will had to match the QVL, but I don't really know what I am looking for in memory everything I look at says the default none OC ram is painfully slow, almost all of the audio from my music production VSTs go into the RAM so I assume an OC matched set would work best?  

NVMe SSD - I have only ever used SATA SSD, what am I looking for in this I know it needs to be Will be a Samsung Evo or a Pro unsure yet but will be a NVMe. 

GPU - I currently have a 8GB Asus Radeon RX 580 ROG STRIX GAMING OC so I have no need to upgrade

 

Sound Card -  I have an Allen and Heath ZED R16 I use that onboard sound card via the Firewire port, of which I will buy a PCIe card.


PSU - I have Corsair 850 Watt RM850x Fully Modular ATX - Will I need to upgrade this? I I currently have a 24pin ATX and an 8pin 12v CPU plugged in and I have a spear CPU power cable to power the extra need I have seen.

Case - NZXT Source 530 - Their website says the Zenith Extreme Motherboard is comparable. CPU Clarence CPU Cooler 183mm - I was thinking the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 but would it be worth going for a 3 fan Water Cooler for the TR4 socket? as I have room on the top of the case for it? 

Just incase you would like to know the demands of the software I use Cubase, Sibelius and Finale
Eastwest Play engine, BFD 3, Kontakt and many other VST totalling 2.8TB on a 7200 HDD 
Steam Games, Assassins Creed and GTA plus a few others. 500GB
I do the occasional Live recording but that is processed by the mixing desk and it's onboard sound card and then sent into Cubase. 

 

Any input into this would be most helpful as I would Like to sort this out, it will be a hopefully future proof build for minimum of 5 years like my previous one. 

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I would say that r7 2700x should be enough, music production isnt much cpu intensive?

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I have no idea what CPU requirements your software has, but I want to say thank you for actually providing the information needed to help!

So many people ask what components they need and then don't list the software they use, or their full use cases.

 

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