Man oh man, is everyone out there who builds their own computers a gamer??? Geeze. That's what it feels like the last few years. You can't even search for "non gaming" components because all the searches pick up on is the word "gaming" Ugh. There are those of us out there who aren't gamers who build their own machines for Pete's sake. 
:/
I'm a database developer. I work in MS SQL, Visual Studio, and Delphi for the most part. I'm weeks away from being able to start buying parts for rebuilding my development machine. SQL Server hogs resources and I often have a lot open at once (VS, Access, SQL, Photoshop, Excel, Word, SQL Compare, etc). Windows 10 with VMWare. Actually I'm not quite sure what my host OS is going to be but I'll likely virtualize XP, 7 and 10.
I'm likely to do the following:
Threadripper 1900x
64 GB Corsair Dominator (CMD32GX4M4A2666C15)
Samsung 950 Pro M.2 (MZ-V5P512BW)
PNY NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510 2GB GDDR3 4-Mini DisplayPort (I don't need gaming video)
Onboard sound is fine but I have an HT Omega I might move over
I also have an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i that I've been quite happy with that's moving to the new machine.
I'm fine with spending in the neighborhood of $400 on a board. I don't do this very often. My last major build was in 2010. I put a ton into it and apart from adding RAM last year it's still kicking butt. I don't like to do this on the cheap. I need power for doing db work and building my applications.
I'm leaning toward this one but I'm really not sure yet: ASRock X399 Taichi sTR4 AMD X399 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard
Any suggestions? I've done lots of research and everything ends up in the gaming area. I'm fine with a gaming board as long as there are advantages that I can use and I'm not wasting too much money on gaming features I'll never use.
Thanks in advance
Here's a good article that says it all when it comes to those of us who want to buy rock solid high(ish) end productivity components without all the childish gimmicks designed to attract 12 year olds. It's gotten absurd.
http://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-hardware-needs-to-grow-up/
:/ I'm a database developer. I work in MS SQL, Visual Studio, and Delphi for the most part. I'm weeks away from being able to start buying parts for rebuilding my development machine. SQL Server hogs resources and I often have a lot open at once (VS, Access, SQL, Photoshop, Excel, Word, SQL Compare, etc). Windows 10 with VMWare. Actually I'm not quite sure what my host OS is going to be but I'll likely virtualize XP, 7 and 10.
I'm likely to do the following:
Threadripper 1900x
64 GB Corsair Dominator (CMD32GX4M4A2666C15)
Samsung 950 Pro M.2 (MZ-V5P512BW)
PNY NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510 2GB GDDR3 4-Mini DisplayPort (I don't need gaming video)
Onboard sound is fine but I have an HT Omega I might move over
I also have an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i that I've been quite happy with that's moving to the new machine.
I'm fine with spending in the neighborhood of $400 on a board. I don't do this very often. My last major build was in 2010. I put a ton into it and apart from adding RAM last year it's still kicking butt. I don't like to do this on the cheap. I need power for doing db work and building my applications.
I'm leaning toward this one but I'm really not sure yet: ASRock X399 Taichi sTR4 AMD X399 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard
Any suggestions? I've done lots of research and everything ends up in the gaming area. I'm fine with a gaming board as long as there are advantages that I can use and I'm not wasting too much money on gaming features I'll never use.
Thanks in advance
Here's a good article that says it all when it comes to those of us who want to buy rock solid high(ish) end productivity components without all the childish gimmicks designed to attract 12 year olds. It's gotten absurd.
http://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-hardware-needs-to-grow-up/
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