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[cyberf4n]

Hi everyone,



I am planning to build a PC for both gaming and work. I need a PC that can sustain 3-4 Hyper-V VMs open at all times doing some tasks (not extremely intensive), but in the same time do my day to day stuff, sometimes gaming (World of Warcraft for example, not 4k games).

This is what I came up with and fits my budget:



X399 AORUS XTREME AMD X399 (SOCKET TR4) DDR4 E-ATX MOTHERBOARD £450.00

RYZEN THREADRIPPER 32-CORE / 64-THREADS 2990WX 4.20GHZ (SOCKET TR4) PROCESSOR - RETAIL £1,628.00

EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 80+ PLATINUM, 1200W ECO Mode Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI and Crossfire Ready Power Supply 220-P2-1200-X3 £214.00

Samsung (MZ-V6E1T0BW) 1TB EVO PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive £267.00

Corsair CMW32GX4M4C3200C16 Vengeance RGB PRO 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 Enthusiast RGB LED Illuminated Memory Kit, Black £328.00

NZXT CA-H442W-M1 Mid Tower Computer Case - Black £137.00

Cooling £500.00

Nvidia 1080 Ti £600.00

Total £4,124.00



I haven’t built a PC in years and I am not up to date with nowadays technologies so I have few questions:

• If I want to go for 64 GB RAM should I do 4x16 or 8x8? Is 3200MHz ok? Or should I go for faster speed \ better latency? Please advise.
• Is this Mid Tower case big enough for the board and GPU? Or for future additional components like another GPU
• In the future I want to go for SLI and I think 1080 Ti will still be good in the next few years, what do you think?
• Cooling is from EK, but I really have no clue which kit to choose, but I don’t want to pay more than £500 for it.

Feel free to give an opinion on what you would change in this build.



Thanks

 

[cyberf4n]

Why not go for a older xeon?

Because it is faster on 95% of all the tests. The 2990 price is amazing for what it offers.
PS: I was an Intel fan, but for the first time I feel that AMD is just better.

 

[cyberf4n]

What are you using at the moment for your VM's and gaming solution?

Nothing, I used only laptops and my work PC in the last 3-5 years, moving house etc, multiple factors. I had 2x Xeon, 16GB dual and some Nvidia card, can’t remember exactly. The same setup won’t be good in 2018.
Will start some projects now and I need personal development environments.
1-2 blockchain nodes for development, video editing (not professional level), web\ MS Win 10 development, some VMs with different network appliances like Netscalers for testing. I used Azure cloud as well, but it gets expensive.

 

[cyberf4n]

4 cores, RAM dynamic allocation, 2 GB startup and 8GB max\VM (I will never need all of them on high workload). Thanks, it is a good point, but I think 4 channels are still ok for what I am doing. If I would chose an EPYC, 7551P would be max I can go, £2k, but do I really need it.

 

[cyberf4n]

Many thanks, I was just looking into 2950X and you confirmed my thoughts. I will use the money difference for an Evolve X case with an extra ITX motherboard (dual-system) and I think I actually get a faster \ better latency environment overall.

 

[cyberf4n]

Nice, I haven't found too many comparisons between Aorus Xtreme and Zenith Xtreme, except that the WiFi is a lot better on the Asus ones. Might get that one, the rest of the specs seems to be the same.
I need to go with RGB RAM, I am not a fanatic with lights, but on the RAM just looks cool (personal thing).
I thought about the 2x1080 Ti and I do not need them. I will get 1x1080 Ti for gaming and 1x maybe Vega 64 for compute power (this one not now, maybe Feb 2019)
The Ryzen 7 on the ITX sounds great, if my time would be 50% gaming I would go with this one on the main PC, but not the case here.
My idea of cooling was open loop with hard tubing, but I've dropped this last night after seen how much time it takes to set it up. After all it is just a fancy thing useful for hardcore overclockers.

I have only 1 more task now: decide between Zenith Xtreme and Aorus Xtreme.

Great replies both, very helpful.