New i9 Build

viper123

Hi,

Looking for advice, does anyone see any issue with this spec for a PC build, especially any compatibility issues between the components, or something alternative I should be considering?

ASUS MAXIMUS XI HERO motherboard
i9 9900 Processor clocked to 4.9gH
Corsair Hydro H150i PRO RGB - 360mm Liquid Cooler
32gB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB 3200 MHz DDR4 (2x16 so can be upgraded to 64gB in due course)
850W Corsair RM850i Power
MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB GAMING X TRIO Turing Graphics Card
Havent selected a chassis as yet

Homelander

Is this a self build or what?

If you are throwing that kinda money around, a build with a 2080Ti, 3700X, B450M and 32GB 3600mhz would actually cost less and destroy it in games.

Also what is the PC for exactly. You mentioned 64GB ram so you must have something specific in mind? In which case maybe a 9900 is better. Impossible to actually really give any advice without knowing the use.

viper123

Sorry should have also mentioned the use. It'll be primarily a development machine hosting a number of Hyper-V VM's running SQL and Visual Studio, but it'll also be used for some online gaming. The GPU might be overkill for what I intend to use it for but I'd rather it to be future-proofed hence this and also the option of upping the RAM at a later date if required.

It'll be a mostly self build but the chip, motherboard, cooling and ram will be prebuilt as a single purchase

Tij da feen

If the plan is to be running VMs for SQL and development I'd personally go for the higher Core/Thread count to dedicate to your VMs. AMD 3900X has 12 Core 24 Threads vs 8 Core 16 Threads on the i9. From a quick look at amazon the 3900X is currently £100 cheaper.

Do you have your storage sorted out? Depending on the use case of your SQL server (if it's very Transactional) some more investment here may make more sense

Cuddlesworth

Vm requirements for me

Storage(minimum SSD or above)
Ram
CPU(core count over frequency)

K.O.Kiki

To add to above:

https://www.cclonline.com/pc/gaming-pcs/ryzenx/ccl-ryzenx-gaming-pc/0301090005000000010001/
Customised RyzenX
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8GHz
RAM 16GB DDR4 3200MHz
Graphics GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB
Storage 1000GB Adata XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe SSD
Wi-Fi 433Mbps Built-in Wi-Fi
£1,804.99
or £1,904.99 with Windows 10

Customise as needed.

viper123

Tij da feen wrote: »

If the plan is to be running VMs for SQL and development I'd personally go for the higher Core/Thread count to dedicate to your VMs. AMD 3900X has 12 Core 24 Threads vs 8 Core 16 Threads on the i9. From a quick look at amazon the 3900X is currently £100 cheaper.

Do you have your storage sorted out? Depending on the use case of your SQL server (if it's very Transactional) some more investment here may make more sense

Interesting thought on the thread count, I just picked intel without really considering the other options out there.
Disk space I didn't include in the spec other than one for the OS I'm aiming to include 2x2tB SSD's

viper123

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Vm requirements for me

Storage(minimum SSD or above)
Ram
CPU(core count over frequency)

VM's I'll probably have maybe 10 of them available but cannot see more than 2 or 3 active at any time, it's more for switching between projects and maybe a test environ

Cuddlesworth

viper123 wrote: »

VM's I'll probably have maybe 10 of them available but cannot see more than 2 or 3 active at any time, it's more for switching between projects and maybe a test environ

You say that, but it always scales out or you get lazy and don't want to shut them down. In the virtual world, shared RAM is a big no, so you end up running out pretty quickly.

It should be worth pointing out, HyperV and gaming is a pain in the arse, would be better just running a Vm client on the Host OS like VMware workstation.

viper123

Space makes that difficult, currently running VM's off a decent spec laptop docked to a few monitors but I'm worried it will eventually overheat, the fans are on permanently now and I have no fallback if it was to fail. The plan is to make the laptop a backup and use a desktop going forward but I only have the space really for one tower

viper123

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

or you get lazy and don't want to shut them down. In the virtual world, shared RAM is a big no, so you end up running out pretty quickly.

Wont let that happen I normally give them 12gB RAM so on the laptop thats max two vms with enough left over to run the OS