Hey everyone!
A friend of mine is building a high-end workstation PC for video editing, 3D modeling, animation, and heavy rendering. His total budget is around ₹3,50,000, and that includes both the PC + one OLED monitor.
This is the current parts list (screenshot attached in the post):
Might be unpopular opinion, but you should probably go intel if the workstation is solely for productivity. It also kinda depends on the software you use, so that information would help in suggesting the right thing. Intel’s quicksync offers some pretty nice benefits depending on the software you’re gonna be using for editing.
In general most reviews have painted the Core ultra series as pretty bad, due to the worse than last gen gaming performance and no competition against AMD efficiency. But when it comes to productivity stuff, 285K still comes on top of the 9950X. Granted with a lot more power usage. So you need to sort out your priorities here. Both the platforms are probably only gonna get one more generation of CPUs. Do keep in mind, that if you go Intel, you wanna get at least 7600 or if possible 8200 Mhz RAM in order to leverage the superior memory controller on the Intel side. RAM prices for Intel sticks also haven’t skyrocketed as much yet.
If you do want to go AMD, no point getting the x3D, no benefit for your workload (unless you’re gonna be gaming). You can save 10-12k right here by going 9950X or 285K instead of 9950X3D.
If you don’t mind the looks of it, Arctic Liquid Freezer III (or III Pro with the better fans) is pretty much the best AIO on the market at a good price. Even more so for Intel.
O11 Vision is pretty much a completely aesthetics focused case. If you’re looking for airflow, look at the lancool series. Lancool 206, 207 and 217 are some of the top performers on the market in terms of thermals.
That’s not ATX 3.1 or even 3.0 I think. For 50 series GPU, you should get a newer one. Some good options:
Welp, this sounds to me more like a Gaming build on hype products than actually well researched video editing / 3D build. Go with intel and quicksync, and a used 4090 ideally. Asus ProArt and BenQ profession series monitors will suit you better than OLED in this case. Also don’t gamble with ADATA Solid State Drives.
From personal experience, the 9950x3d isn’t worth the minuscule performance boost over the 9950x as I’m using a 4K oled monitor with the PC. But your mileage may vary. Do check out, there’s a lot of comparison articles and videos for them both.
Yeah they are pretty hard to come by, I had seen one selling on Discord but now that is sold. Think about the 5090 idea again if that makes sense to you. Also, I’ll keep an eye out and let you know.
