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  • /waves in v. similar build.

    I had some random crashes when doing unnecessary scaling playing games but since diagnosed it's been perfect. I put it through similar 16h+ days of video editing/transcodes/animation/photo editing/design and pretty much constant gaming.

    Mine was around £5-6k if I recall but does have a 3090 instead of 3080 (though half the ram). Also mine has 4TB of nvme.

    5950x / vision b550 d / vision 3090 / 64gb 3600 corsair vengeance rgb (2x32gb) / 2 x
    wd black sn850 2tb / noctua nh d15s / 4 x nf s12a / corsair 4000d airflow

    I went with the B550d which is a bit out there but it visually matched the only 3090 I could secure and it had 2 x actual thunderbolt 3 which has been crucial for work. When I next upgrade it'll be a new mobo with additional thunderbolt ports and better ethernet options.

    I don't know Fractal enough to feel comfortable relying on their PSU not setting my main source of income on fire (I know they do nice cases but had no idea about power).

  • You already running this?

    Mine looks similar-ish.

    So the big questions.

    1. Do you regret the spend?
    2. How big a difference do you feel day to day working and gaming on that build?
  • For a year.

    1. Yes and no. I can play all the games I want, with all the frames I want, at all the settings I want. Which is definitely a lot more fun than struggling along in bootcamp. I bought parts over about two months as they became available. It was still a chunk of money at a tricky time when a lot of shoots were being cancelled. My thinking was having something more powerful at home would be a complimentary investment to the 100k+ I've spent on cameras/lighting etc over the years that was then gathering dust, and that perhaps I could get more remote work in post production. That has happened (to a degree but more always welcome). So I've earned many times the cost back from the purchase alone. And the avenues for upgrade are good(ish - comments below around threadripper etc not withstanding). However I do like small, quiet and neat things. So there is a big chunk of me wishing I just had a fully decked M1 Max Pro that I could take with me and get comparable edit performance in the field as well as at home. I suspect it wouldn't solve all the problems and I certainly wouldn't be able to game and some codecs would be a pain to render, but it would be small and quiet.

    2. Working is fantastic. Playing is fantastic. Both the best I've ever experienced. Fans kick in playing games but quickly chill out when I'm done. And I have headphones on so can't even hear them. The loudest thing is my keyboard.

  • Echoing what others have said. PCIE lanes are gonna be your biggest constraint. Even if you go with last gen threadripper like I did you’ll end up with something far more usable. I sourced lightly used parts over time (except PSU) and borrowed ram. To give you a price comparison, I build a threadripper 1950x, x399 mobo, dual nvme drives, dual 3090 OC gpus, 1200w platinum PSU in a fractal define 7 xl case and I reckon I got change from £4.5k. Price up ram accordingly. YMMV etc.

    The only thing about threadripper CPUs is that they’re power hungry, even at rest.

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