Hey guys, a little out of the loop here. I'm looking at my upgrade options so I can start budgeting for it. I'm currently running an i7-4790K, GTX1080, 32GB RAM (DDR3 I believe, don't know the speed). It's starting to show its age both in AC and with work stuff, so it's time to upgrade.
As some background, in addition to sim racing I do a lot of 3D CAD (Solidworks), rendering (Keyshot; so CPU speed and thread count are king) as well as fairly heavy Photoshop and Illustrator work. Unfortunately the variety of stuff I do means that I need good parts for pretty much everything since everything is heavily utilized by different software.
I've already got a beefy Noctua CPU cooler I'll keep using provided it fits with the newer chip architecture (I'll have to look into that), and I'll keep running my GTX1080 for a while.
I think I'm set on an i9-9900k as it seems to be just about the best on single-core performance (for AC) and has 16 threads (for Keyshot). Now, I have no idea what to get for a Mainboard, nor what to get for RAM. Obviously it'll be DDR4, and probably 32GB, but beyond that I'm lost. What brands to get, or to stay away from? What's the impact of the various different variants?
I'm in Canada, and it looks like I should be expecting to dole out about $1500 for the CPU, Motherboard and RAM.
Does anyone have any specific items I should consider?
As some background, in addition to sim racing I do a lot of 3D CAD (Solidworks), rendering (Keyshot; so CPU speed and thread count are king) as well as fairly heavy Photoshop and Illustrator work. Unfortunately the variety of stuff I do means that I need good parts for pretty much everything since everything is heavily utilized by different software.
I've already got a beefy Noctua CPU cooler I'll keep using provided it fits with the newer chip architecture (I'll have to look into that), and I'll keep running my GTX1080 for a while.
I think I'm set on an i9-9900k as it seems to be just about the best on single-core performance (for AC) and has 16 threads (for Keyshot). Now, I have no idea what to get for a Mainboard, nor what to get for RAM. Obviously it'll be DDR4, and probably 32GB, but beyond that I'm lost. What brands to get, or to stay away from? What's the impact of the various different variants?
I'm in Canada, and it looks like I should be expecting to dole out about $1500 for the CPU, Motherboard and RAM.
Does anyone have any specific items I should consider?