Build Advice

[KImba1]

Hi All,

Could I please have some advice. I am looking to purchase another new computer. I will be using MATLAB, MS Excel, Premiere Pro and AutoDesk Inventor. I will be doing a lot of multitasking and I will not be playing any games. I would like to choose one of the builds below for this work. They are both around the same price. I do not mind waiting for the 5950X. Which one would you chose for the needs mentioned above and why?



Build Option 1

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Processor

MSI MEG X570 Unify Motherboard

Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCI-E Gen4 NVMe SSD 500GB

Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCI-E Gen4 NVMe SSD 250GB

Phanteks AMP PH-P750G 750W Modular Gold Power Supply

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2X OC 8GB

Team T-Force Dark Za 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL16 DDR4

Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Pro XT 360mm AIO CPU Cooler

Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA SSD 2TB

Phanteks Eclipse P400A Airflow Plus D-RGB Tempered Glass Black







Build Option 2

Processor : AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3945WX (12C / 24T, 4.0 / 4.3GHz, 6MB L2 / 64MB L3)

Motherboard : MB AMD Castle Peak

Memory : 1x 32GB RDIMM DDR4-3200 ECC

First Video Adapter : 1x NVIDIA® Quadro® P2200 5GB

First Onboard M.2 SSD : 1x 512GB SSD M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe Opal

Second Onboard M.2 SSD : 1x 265GB SSD M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe Opal

First Storage : 1x 1TB HDD 7200rpm 3.5"

Power Supply : 1000W Platinum Fixed

 

[beers]

Why do you have two small nvme drives when you could just get one 1TB or larger?


Also the 12c TR will perform worse than the 5950x.

 

[KImba1]

Why do you have two small nvme drives when you could just get one 1TB or larger?


Also the 12c TR will perform worse than the 5950x.

I guess I would just like to keep my working files on a different drive to my program files. A few people that I have spoken to say what you said as well. Why don't they like my idea here?

 

[DavidG]

I guess I would just like to keep my working files on a different drive to my program files. A few people that I have spoken to say what you said as well. Why don't they like my idea here

It isn’t necessary. It stems from the belief that if all your data is kept on one drive and programs on another if the system drive dies then your data is still intact. This is true but there is just as much chance of the data drive dying as the system drive. It give a sense of false security. A better idea would be to have a backup system with an external drive in the event of disaster failure.