[SOLVED] $4000 USD advice

[GamerGames]

Approximate Purchase Date: In the next month

Budget Range: $4000 USD

System Usage from Most to Least Important: CAD, Rendering, 4k video editing

Are you buying a monitor: Yes


Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg/amazon

Location: City, State/Region, Country - we need to know where these parts are being assembled and whether there are good store-only deals available

Parts Preferences: preferably amd but open to intel

Overclocking: Yes, preferably with a custom water loop

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 4k

Additional Comments: Windows, would like to have a custom water cooling loop built into the budget, also, would like to use the Tower 900 case

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: my old laptop just decided to break, started smoking and is now no longer booting, it was old, not enough power, ready for something new with nice aesthetics

 

[Newtonius]

Here's a build that would work nicely.
Reasoning:

A 3950X is the second Lowest HEDT that tops the charts in most production applications. I tried going for threadripper 3960X but your budget won't allow for a fully kitted out rig without making a few compromises. Which is not ideal

A 2080 Super instead of a Ti variant because you don't plan on gaming and you don't need that much horsepower to render in 4K with a GPU. Even a 1660 Super can handle decent 4K rendering.

WARNING: The 3950X does NOT come with a cooler, which is fine in your case since you plan to water cool.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/twHcMc

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor ($749.00 @ Best Buy)
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard ($295.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($87.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Black 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($169.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB Video Card ($699.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Thermaltake Tower 900 ATX Full Tower Case ($247.06 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($118.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($106.99 @ Other World Computing)
Total: $2795.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-11 14:01 EST-0500

As for the watercooling components, you should visit EKWB website or other water-cooling companies that can guide you on the best cooling for your system.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

The system Newtonious provided will be very very good and provide decent value.

However, within budget you can get higher end components which will deliver a superior experience. I did manage to squeek in a 2080ti and 3960x, although you may want to drop the GPU down to a 2080 super for a lot of money saved and not a lot of performance loss.


PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD Threadripper 3960X 3.8 GHz 24-Core Processor | $1399.00 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX sTRX4 Motherboard | $399.99 @ Amazon
Memory | G.Skill Aegis 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $246.99 @ Newegg
Storage | Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive | $229.99 @ B&H
Storage | Hitachi Ultrastar 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $35.95 @ Amazon
Video Card | EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Black Video Card | $1106.98 @ Newegg
Case | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case | $139.00 @ Adorama
Power Supply | Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $119.99 @ Corsair
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $3677.89
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-11 14:19 EST-0500 |

This still leaves enough money to get some watercooling components from a reputable company like EKWB.

Edited to replace 2tb secondary SSD with a HDD and allow for 64gb ram.

 

[GamerGames]

Thank you both for your part lists, I will leave the thread open for another 2-3 days, and then give a best answer

 

[GamerGames]

Here's a build that would work nicely.
Reasoning:

A 3950X is the second Lowest HEDT that tops the charts in most production applications. I tried going for threadripper 3960X but your budget won't allow for a fully kitted out rig without making a few compromises. Which is not ideal

A 2080 Super instead of a Ti variant because you don't plan on gaming and you don't need that much horsepower to render in 4K with a GPU. Even a 1660 Super can handle decent 4K rendering.

WARNING: The 3950X does NOT come with a cooler, which is fine in your case since you plan to water cool.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/twHcMc

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor ($749.00 @ Best Buy)
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard ($295.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($87.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Black 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($169.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB Video Card ($699.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Thermaltake Tower 900 ATX Full Tower Case ($247.06 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($118.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($106.99 @ Other World Computing)
Total: $2795.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-11 14:01 EST-0500

As for the watercooling components, you should visit EKWB website or other water-cooling companies that can guide you on the best cooling for your system.

do you think

Thank you both for your part lists, I will leave the thread open for another 2-3 days, and then give a best answer

The system Newtonious provided will be very very good and provide decent value.

However, within budget you can get higher end components which will deliver a superior experience. I did manage to squeek in a 2080ti and 3960x, although you may want to drop the GPU down to a 2080 super for a lot of money saved and not a lot of performance loss.


PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD Threadripper 3960X 3.8 GHz 24-Core Processor | $1399.00 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX sTRX4 Motherboard | $399.99 @ Amazon
Memory | G.Skill Aegis 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $246.99 @ Newegg
Storage | Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive | $229.99 @ B&H
Storage | Hitachi Ultrastar 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $35.95 @ Amazon
Video Card | EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Black Video Card | $1106.98 @ Newegg
Case | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case | $139.00 @ Adorama
Power Supply | Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $119.99 @ Corsair
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $3677.89
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-11 14:19 EST-0500 |

This still leaves enough money to get some watercooling components from a reputable company like EKWB.

Edited to replace 2tb secondary SSD with a HDD and allow for 64gb ram.

Do you think it might make sense to go with a non-super high end card, or a lower end super variant?

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Super cards are lower cost but simmilar performing versions existing cards.

GTX1660super = GTX1660ti
RTX2060 super = RTX 2070
RTX 2070 super = RTX2080
RTX2080 super is in between RTX 2080 and RTX2080ti

I would cut the GPU down to an RTX 2080 super, which isnt much slower than a 2080ti, but costs half as much

 

[USAFRet]

$4k budget and you guys are recommending spinning drives?
No.

At that budget, all SSD. One for the OS and applications, one for working files.
Later, offload and backup to a NAS box.
A 2 bay NAS with 8TB available space would be under $400.

 

[Newtonius]

$4k budget and you guys are recommending spinning drives?
No.

Lol l forgot about that, I was trying to compromise when making a threadripper build. But yeah OP, when it comes to moving around 4K video files and other assets an SSD will definitely speed things up. Though if you don't mind having HDD, that option I chose is not a bad one. You can even get 6TB drives for cheap these days too. But that's if you don't want to spend money on a backup NAS system (though Backup NAS systems are pretty handy).

 

[Archaic59]

This is what I was thinking of for a workstation. Some budget leftover for a custom cooling loop.
4K Workstation