Question Dual system advise AMD+Intel with 5000$ budget

[thenetvines]

The new AMD chips are coming soon, and I have to choose, or try, and do both systems for no good reason at all (well, maybe).

Not a gamer here, but I want Intel for my media consumption, and 4K library (Nvidia consumer cards + Intel casting abilities), but I also need a more future roof machine for productivity (Solidworks, Autocad work), and it's so confusing to pick the right hardware for the latter with so much info out there.

Is a dual system such a dumb idea, it might just work?

Can one try, and get the best of both worlds moderately evenly with such budget?

Please advise.

 

[mdd1963]

Are you possibly referring to one of those stupid cases that holds two mainboards?

I like Intel but....'Intel for media consumption'...what does that even mean?

A single 2700X or 9900K should more than suffice unless your workload is so restricted over video processing/rendering that more than 8 cores might make sense...

AMD is releasing a 12 core mainstream CPU in ~30 days that might be right up your alley....$499, plus probably $250 for an X570 mainboard, and, $200-$250 for a 32 GB RAM kit (16 GB x 2), plus $225 for a 2 TB Intel 660P NVME/M.2 drive...