Hi guys
I am a content creator and have other power-hungry apps using up my 7700k right now. I also run 4K plex streams around the house and also have 9 4k IP cameras running with blue iris all on one PC. The PC is struggling to keep up with anything these days let alone video rendering. The most power-hungry of them all is blue iris, it uses 80% of the CPU. When a few plex streams are requested, it seems to work but only after a few tries when the CPU is able to keep up with the demand. Network bandwidth also seems to be a bottleneck with all camera/plex streams, downloads, and uploads happening on a single 1GB nic. For the occasional game, I have to shut down blue iris and plex as they both use my GPU Cuda processing to take a little load off the CPU. The PC is also up 24/7 for security purposes.
So I came up with a plan to upgrade the lot (apart from monitors and peripherals).
1. Superfast CPU like the new Threadripper 3960x
2. A competent mobo like the ASROCK Creator trx4 (no overclocking needed)
3. 32GB DDR4 ram
4. A used 1080 Ti
5. 850w PSU
6. All in one water block
7. 1TB NvME x2 in raid 0
8. Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT ConnectX-3 card for SFP+ networking (I have a brocade SFP+ switch already)
7. Some RGB to deal with subsequent depression from the huge bill
Looking for upgrades later on so would like a full tower case too so I can experiment with water cooling with EK blocks etc
Any advice on the kit list? Please let me know if I am going overkill with my wishlist and price point.
Thank you in advance.
I am a content creator and have other power-hungry apps using up my 7700k right now. I also run 4K plex streams around the house and also have 9 4k IP cameras running with blue iris all on one PC. The PC is struggling to keep up with anything these days let alone video rendering. The most power-hungry of them all is blue iris, it uses 80% of the CPU. When a few plex streams are requested, it seems to work but only after a few tries when the CPU is able to keep up with the demand. Network bandwidth also seems to be a bottleneck with all camera/plex streams, downloads, and uploads happening on a single 1GB nic. For the occasional game, I have to shut down blue iris and plex as they both use my GPU Cuda processing to take a little load off the CPU. The PC is also up 24/7 for security purposes.
So I came up with a plan to upgrade the lot (apart from monitors and peripherals).
1. Superfast CPU like the new Threadripper 3960x
2. A competent mobo like the ASROCK Creator trx4 (no overclocking needed)
3. 32GB DDR4 ram
4. A used 1080 Ti
5. 850w PSU
6. All in one water block
7. 1TB NvME x2 in raid 0
8. Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT ConnectX-3 card for SFP+ networking (I have a brocade SFP+ switch already)
7. Some RGB to deal with subsequent depression from the huge bill
Looking for upgrades later on so would like a full tower case too so I can experiment with water cooling with EK blocks etc
Any advice on the kit list? Please let me know if I am going overkill with my wishlist and price point.
Thank you in advance.
