Do all of these components seem compatible? Any changes you'd prefer to make?

furiousdarkshadow · Jan 13, 2018

1) SSD:
- Samsung 960 PRO Series - 2TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD

2) HDD:
- HGST Ultrastar He10 HUH721010ALE604 10TB SATA 6Gb/s 7,200 rpm 256MB Cache 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

3) Mouse:
- Logitech G903 Chaos Spectrum

4) Keyboard:
- Corsair K95 RGB Platinum

5) Graphics Card:
- ‎ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC Edition

6) RAM:
- Corsair DOMINATOR Platinum Series 64GB DDR4 3200 C16 Memory Kit

7) CPU:
- AMD RYZEN Threadripper 1950X 16-Core / 32 Threads 3.4 GHz Socket sTR4 180W YD195XA8AEWOF Desktop Processor

8) Case:
- Cooler Master MasterCase MC500Mt

9) Motherboard:
- ‎Asus - ROG ZENITH EXTREME EATX TR4 Motherboard

10) Micro SD Card:
- ‎Sandisk Ultra 400GB Micro SDXC UHS-I Card with Adapter

11) Monitor:
- ROG Swift PG35VQ Gaming Monitor - 35 inch, Ultra-WQHD, HDR, 21:9 Curved, 200Hz

12) Mouse Pad:
- Corsair Vengeance MM600

13) Power Supply:
- SeaSonic - PRIME Titanium 850W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

14) ‎Thermal Compound:
- Gelid Solutions - GC-Extreme 3.5g Thermal Paste

15) Optical Drive:
- Asus - BC-12D2HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer

16) Operating System:
- Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit

17) CPU Cooler:
- Enermax - LiqTech TR4 360 102.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

vapour · Jan 13, 2018

All very good choices except MB, I suggest you check more on the motherboard, taichi will be my pick.
Heard 4 sticks of ram, i.e., 4x8gb is better for TR4.

cryoburner · Jan 13, 2018

It sounds like this system is intended primarily for gaming? Since you are getting a high refresh rate screen, an i7-8700K would likely get you higher frame rates in games. Threadripper is a great CPU for heavily multithreaded tasks like video encoding, but Intel's recent processors tend to offer a bit higher performance per-core. Since nearly all games tend to only make use of a moderate number of threads, they won't utilize those extra cores anyway, so over half the cores of a 1950X won't even be in use when gaming. An 8700K with 6 cores and 12 threads should actually offer higher frame rates in most games when paired with a high-end graphics card. (Assuming the various patches for those recent Meltdown and Spectre exploits don't impact Intel's gaming performance too much.)

Plus, an 8700K-based system will of course cost less than a Threadripper one. For a gaming-centered build, 64GB of RAM is also arguably overkill, since only a limited number of today's games even make use of more than 8GB. Even 32GB will likely be overkill for any games released in the next few years. Unless you're also using the system for tasks can can make use of those extra cores and RAM, I just don't see much point in spending money on things that won't likely improve performance at all.

vapour · Jan 13, 2018

cryoburner :

It sounds like this system is intended primarily for gaming? Since you are getting a high refresh rate screen, an i7-8700K would likely get you higher frame rates in games. Threadripper is a great CPU for heavily multithreaded tasks like video encoding, but Intel's recent processors tend to offer a bit higher performance per-core. Since nearly all games tend to only make use of a moderate number of threads, they won't utilize those extra cores anyway, so over half the cores of a 1950X won't even be in use when gaming. An 8700K with 6 cores and 12 threads should actually offer higher frame rates in most games when paired with a high-end graphics card. (Assuming the various patches for those recent Meltdown and Spectre exploits don't impact Intel's gaming performance too much.)

Plus, an 8700K-based system will of course cost less than a Threadripper one. For a gaming-centered build, 64GB of RAM is also arguably overkill, since only a limited number of today's games even make use of more than 8GB. Even 32GB will likely be overkill for any games released in the next few years. Unless you're also using the system for tasks can can make use of those extra cores and RAM, I just don't see much point in spending money on things that won't likely improve performance at all.

2 tb ssd and theadripper + 64gb ram definitely is for serious productivity, 8700k will not cut it.

cryoburner · Jan 13, 2018

Maybe, but I just thought I'd point that out, since there seemed to be some gaming-centered components, and they didn't actually specify what their intended uses for the system were. Some people building high-end systems for gaming tend to think that spending more on something will automatically equal more performance, when that's not always the case. : )

I will add that for the case of live-streaming gameplay on services like Twitch, having more than 6 cores/12 threads might potentially show some performance benefit for those using a CPU-based video encoder, perhaps more so as games slowly start to make use of more cores.

furiousdarkshadow · Jan 14, 2018

I picked this specific motherboard for its 10gbps onboard ethernet support.
I actually need the ThreadRipper and the 64 gigs for Video Editing.

vapour · Jan 14, 2018

I see, then just get 4x16 gb ram sticks

furiousdarkshadow · Jan 14, 2018

Already done that. So everything's good then?

vapour · Jan 14, 2018

Yep, good luck

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