How's this build looking for AE/Premiere/Cinema4d work (budget $$$$$)

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Case COOLERMASTER MASTERCASE MAKER 5t GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) i7-6950x (if budget gets squeezed - i7-6900)
Motherboard ASUS® X99-E WS: SOCKET 2011-V3, DDR4, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s
Memory (RAM) 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V (16x4) 3000MHz 15,15,15,35,2N
Graphics Card NVIDIA GTX 1080ti
OS DRIVE - PCI-E SSD Drive Samsung 960 Evo (250GB)
CACHE DRIVE - Samsung 960 Pro (512GB)
MEDIA DRIVE - Samsung 960 Pro (2TB) or Samsung 850 Pro (1TB) x 4
Power Supply CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling Corsair H100i V2 Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans
Network - 10Gb/ethernet PCI card (we have large central storage at work)

Where can I improve for what i'm doing? RAM, Motherboard?




Many thanks!
 
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Ram needs an upgrade. DDR4-2133 is the slowest out there and for this system theres no harm in going for higher. If you want to max out ram speed (DDR4-4266) then you will need a new motherboard. In case of future upgrades, theres no harm in making the jump to 1200W power supplies.
 
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The Intel specs on the i7-6950x state 2400, is the max supported RAM, can you go higher with this CPU? I know its just the recommendation from Intel based on error thresholds, but i'm not sure how it works out to real life, if you go higher than the recommendation?
 
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That's just the base specification. Although I think the real maximum is DDR4-3200, I can't be sure. But you won't have any problem going above 2400. Another thing I forgot to mention: With your budget, why not get more than one GPU? Or if you're bent on a single card atleast get a quadro or something.
 
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As far as i'm aware Quadro is much more expensive, and doesn't provide any better returns, it's just more accurate, of which I care not. Also dual GPU doesn't provide any noticeable returns for these software packages.

The greatest speed bumps, seem to come from the CPU, one decent GPU with lots of cores and SSD setups.

If I was to use 3 Samsung 960 Pro's, I assume a couple of them would be going in PCIe lanes with an adaptor, because the X99 ASUS board only has 1 x M.2 slot. Its been about 7 years since my last build, so all this M.2 stuff is new to me!
 
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Thats a good point. But if you want maximum chipset performance, why not go Xeon? The E5-2699 V4 has 22 cores, which is more than double the cores of the 6950x. And its only a couple hundred bucks more apparently.
 
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Well, my research mainly based on this websites tests, reveals that the Adobe software gets to about 0% more efficiency after around 12 cores. So I thought he higher clocks speeds would be more useful, as it can deal with more single threaded intense effects such as 'warp stabilizer' quicker than more cores. The cores would help on the cinema 4d side, but i'm happy to render in the evenings, across multiple edit suites.

K i've taken a look at RAM, i'm thinking maybe G.Skill Ripjaws V 64GB (4x16) 3000MHz, with a 15,15,15,35 works out to be a good choice. The higher speed RAM, gets worse timings, which seems to negate the clock speed bump.
 
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Ram looks good, however the speed bump isn't enough to slow it down to the point of noticeable difference. On the case of CPUs, the Xeon I mentioned has a higher boost clock than the 6950x (.1 hz difference) and the boost clock is the working energy when the processor is actually in use.
 
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yes. Intel turbo boost should be enabled by default, and when it is, that's the working speed of your chip. It can be disabled/enabled through motherboard bios.
 
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Yeah I had a look. Intel doesnt gurantee you will get the turbo boost speed all the time. It depends on current draw, temperature etc. So its hard to know, whether its going to be active at all inside premiere/AE or whether it'll just be all running at the base clock speed.... i'll do some research
 
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That information is based off of performance on Kaby Lake gaming CPUs, which have .3hz difference between base and turbo frequency. Xeon and Broadwell workstation chips are almost tuned to the max, because of the huge difference in base-max turbo frequency (1+Ghz)
 
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