New build for professional rendering and AI/ML

[HDHaggis]

Use case is professional work (game dev), deep learning (less frequent for now), and VR

Goals

• Lots of CPU threads (possibly 3960x or higher), so 40 threads or more
• gtx 3090 ( lots of GPU memory)
• 128-256gb of RAM
• Prefer ASUS motherboards but can consider others
• Some gaming
• large computer case/tower (this design but larger, https://www.newegg.com/white-phanteks-eclipse-p600s-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811854082 )
• Prefer Western Digital or Samsung SSDs

Main unknown is what RAM speed and what motherboard. Don’t plan to do much if any overclocking.

 

[Carnival_Forces]

can't talk to the VR or game dev work, but for DL depends on the DL workloads you have in mind, and whether any of them would be CPU trained (this may happen with some quantization schemes that may not be supported on GPU, idk what CUDA has available now) - in these cases more RAM better. inference can commonly happen on the CPU, if i understand correctly, so RAM speed may be helpful there (depending on the DL application and how much end to end latency matters).