Video card for custom PC build

[Misha Engel]

Looks fairly straightforward for the most part. Spend more money, get more performance. I'd be curious if the issue with temporal noise reduction is an optimization problem with the plugin or perhaps AMD chipset drivers. Everything else seems to scale right.

Change DDR4-2666 cl19 https://www.pugetsystems.com//parts/Ram/Crucial-DDR4-2666-16GB-12091#specs into DDR4-3200 cl14 and it is fixed, so yep, spend more money on good memory (G-Skill), let's say $ 120 because TR 1950x has come down to $ 880.
When you primary use Davinci Resolve 14 for post, 32GB is more then enough.
Or use the cheap ($1075) EPYC 7401P with octa channel memory and a big rearview-mirror when you want to see how far all i9's are behind.

 

[Misha Engel]

Following. How'd these builds workout? Happy with performance or wish you did something else?

Pretty great to be honest, altough it's overkill for our standard workflow 4.6k UMP RAW and less (4k and HD prores, dnxhx, cineform, etc..).
CPU is overclocked to 4 GHz on all cores (water cooler 360) and the GPU's run overclocked and undervolted at around 1550..1600 MHz (1 slot EKWB waterblocks).

We did some test with the available 24p 8k.R3D samples on RED.COM and we could run them full-res realtime (just).

Besides the Highpoint SSD7101(which is pure overkill for our standard workflow) I still can't find a better/cheaper solution for our workflow (which also involves 10 bit openGL in photoshop, AE, PP and gimp these days).

Oh, and 1 WD Red Pro died in the raid 10 setup.