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    Bump.

    I'm in the market for a new desktop – had macs for years but thinking about a windows box for work. Used to build my own PCs but that was 20+ years ago. Pretty behind the times on what to go for now.

    Questions:
    Intel i7 – i9 vs. Ryzen 7 – 9
    Nvidia vs. AMD graphics

    I do a lot of frontend work but these are often in much larger projects/apps with dependencies getting compiled and stuff so sometimes need a bit of power, a fair bit of AE and Premiere as well as the usual PS and AI. Would want something that could take 64GB+ ram.

    Should I build something, get a Dell (or similar) or just say to myself fuck it, too hard and get one of the new 27in iMacs? The only thing keeping mac in the equation is all the stuff I've recorded and arranged in Logic – have a MBP which will be fine for most of that though.

    Sorry for telling you my life story, any info or opinions would be the tits!

    Ta,

    sausages

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    • latest adobe updates are garbage on my 2015 hardware... when did 6700 come out and first gen pcie-4 drives... i've been looking as well see what is new.deathboy
    • think my big thing is only ryzen support pcie-4(guess 3 was previous) 4 lanes all gets confusing. but intel suppose to have some rocket ship chip in Q1deathboy
    • feel like going big into a new build to last 6+ years needs that pcie4 support.... and intel is typcially just better for adobe stuff. and x299 still seemsdeathboy
    • spendy as fuck... personally I think gonna wait until at least Q2 see how boards adopt new chips and hopefully no supply chain issuesdeathboy
    • That stream of consciousness was great and all but I can't really find any answers to the questions. Thanks for playing though, 1/10 for relevance.sausages
    • ok ill simplify it. wait until Q2 next year if you want future proofing with PCIe-4.deathboy
    • but considering your knowledge level I wonder if what you would notice... Your desire for 64GB of ram talking u do front end.. what i think of front end is notdeathboy
    • ram intensive... a custom PC will always be streets ahead of a mac for half the cost. I'm thinking you don't really need a x299 arch. you could get a z370deathboy
    • and max ram on 4 slots. dont think u would know better.deathboy
    • I need to run v large datasets in my workflow. Think in terms of large resource mining projects, so yes I would know shitboysausages
    • Fast storage, cpu and RAM are essential in the front end that I do. It’s not all HTML and css y’knowsausages
    • Dell XPS. I prefer to have warranties and no headaches (and a larger screen than a 27")formed
    • Lol wut was deathboy on about, yeah build dude, more fun, i went ryzen 7moldero
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