New build for 3D art, game dev, and gaming

[Boozebeard]

I am looking to build a new desktop for 3D art, game dev, and gaming. I've been out of the desktop game for a while so might be missing some nuances...

My monitor is a 3440x1440 ultra wide and I'll be using the 2TB 980 pro that's in my laptop.

CPU I'm thinking the 7950x for all the cores and speed in my 3D applications. The x3D seems like it will be wasted as I will surely be GPU bottle necked in most games?

GPU I'm kinda stuck with nvidia, as CUDA support is important for some of my applications. This gen seems kinda underwhelming though, so I kind of want to go as cheap as I can while still driving my monitor well and maybe upgrade next gen if the offering is better. I feel like the 4060ti wont quite cut it, especially the 8GB VRAM, so I went with the 70.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BF-GI) = £189.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DE-AM) = £569.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C32 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-29P-KS) = £128.98
• 1 x Corsair RM850x Shift ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (CP-9020252-UK) (SKU: CA-279-CS) = £159.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 WindForce OC 12GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1G2-GI) = £619.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Torrent Black TG Dark Tint Mid Tower (SKU: CA-09V-FD) = £189.95
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler (SKU: HS-01C-BQ) = £79.99

Total: £1,938.80 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Thoughts?

 

[Boozebeard]

Thanks. That's definitely a tempting looking alternative. I was leaning heavy on the CPU 'cause I spend a lot of time in ZBrush, but the Ti would be a lot nicer in other places and for gaming. Hard choice. I don't really work with video much so I don't think the encoder matters.

I should have said that I am looking to stay in the £2k range.

Does the i7 not mind the slower ram? the AMD chips much prefer tighter timings I think?

 

[Boozebeard]

@Boozebeard I'd be looking at 64GB of ram personally for 3D art/game dev.
As mentioned above you really need to look into how much your cpu is used versus your gpu in the programs you use, it might be far more cost effective to put the bulk of you money into the gpu if the programs can make full use of cuda.

I spend most my time in ZBrush which is CPU only. I don't do that much with CUDA, I just need it for when I need it, if you know what I mean. But I am also getting more into doing game dev stuff, so the GPU will also get used for rendering game engine viewports and such.

Stepping down to the i7 and stepping up to the 4070Ti might be the play.