Big video editing upgrade - any spec amends?

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Been in the market for an upgrade leap for a while and I've basically been holding out for the Nvidia 3000 series and AMD 5000 series. Have some 3080s on order but with no queue end in sight and it being a flip-up between those and the stock-ready 3090s that's forced our hand. Now just need the 5950Xs to come into stock. But otherwise, any comments or upgrades on the below without going too much more over budget?

1x Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X TRINITY Ampere
1x AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
1x Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming
2x Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB M.2 NVMe (OS and scratch)
2x Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz (128GB total)
1x Corsair A500 High Performance 120mm Twin Fan CPU Cooler

Totalling about £3,500 give or take what's in stock on the 3090/5950X front.

Will be adding existing/sufficient PSUs, case fans and SATA HDDs.

Spec is video production studio, editing up to 8K RAW, and I'll be getting 3 lots of the above.

Current cases are ok - the now discontinued Aerocool DS200, but it is a mid tower and the airflow isn't the best since it's got a solid front (albeit with side grills), so I'm potentially looking at changing that too. It's for a creative studio environment so not too interested in garish LEDs all over the place - needs to be more practical - but the Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow seems to fit the bill (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...tower-case-black-cc-9011078-ww-ca-207-cs.html), but open to options.

Any improvements, anything I'm missing, or anything not compatible (I usually mess up somewhere!)?
 
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Premiere or davinci? If davinci you could weight the rig more to GPU. 16bpc or 32bpc? May need to consider blackmagic cards for IO.

With 8k footage you might need to think about 10gbe adapters if the footage is on a nas. I'd also forget about mechanical disk drives unless it's a big fast raid.
 
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Premiere or davinci? If davinci you could weight the rig more to GPU. 16bpc or 32bpc? May need to consider blackmagic cards for IO.

With 8k footage you might need to think about 10gbe adapters if the footage is on a nas. I'd also forget about mechanical disk drives unless it's a big fast raid.
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Premiere. Footage is stored locally.

We're already working with the footage (RED RAW) and it's fine on the whole, just need speed improvements which I've no doubt the spec above or similar will provide, so it's more of a 'are there better motherboards at a similar price point' etc rather than 'will this spec do what we want'.
 
i was going to say that most 8K rigs i have seen are threadripper based. i think it is the core count of threadripper as well as the shear amount of PCIE lanes available and larger memory support
 
We don't need Thunderbolt, but tbh I'm not sure we can justify the cost of the TRs given we need 3 of everything.

Or should I be justifying it? :D Granted the benchmark gains are 18%, 37% and 72% more than the 5950X for the 3960X, 3970X and 3990X respectively (PassMark, not Premier etc). Don't think we can afford let alone justify £3,600 (x3) for the 3990X though.

My thought was I'd rather pay £859 vs £1399 for the 18% performance gain/loss, and along with the subsequent mobo costs (+£200), save £740 which will allow us to upgrade the CPU at a future date to something that comes out on-par if not above the 3960X. Rather than tying into something that for the cost just simply has to last for at least 4 years really.
 
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I think you're in the right park with the 5950X tbh. I'm thinking of building myself a new rig and would go with that. Puget Recommends it for their 6K rig, but it'll be fine for 8k. Like with all video, it depends on how time critical delivery is. For me, for example, I can leave stuff rendering overnight if it comes to it. I did some RED 8k stuff on an iMac about 7 years ago and it handled it ok. (Edit, Keying etc).

Puget 5950X rig: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-143/Buy_164
 
Yeah, I mean the "big" in my title is largely in terms of the leap; we've got a Ryzen 9 3900X and an i7-7800X in two machines with 1080Ti's at the moment (amongst other even lower-spec suites) and they handle R3D surprisingly well considering.
 
i have seen some 8K rigs got a few of these RTX30 GPU in it. which you cant really take advantage of using AM4. anyway, that 5950X should be a massive leap in terms of time saved for you compared to your current 3900x. I have not dabbed into 8k but do you think 10GB Vram is enough on RTX3080, i would thought 8K needs more than that at some point. your original spec has RTX3090
 
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i have seen some 8K rigs got a few of these RTX30 GPU in it. which you cant really take advantage of using AM4. anyway, that 5950X should be a massive leap in terms of time saved for you compared to your current 3900x. I have not dabbed into 8k but do you think 10GB Vram is enough on RTX3080, i would thought 8K needs more than that at some point. your original spec has RTX3090
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Depends on the software, there aren't that many GPU enabled effects in Premiere or After Effects.
 
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