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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Appreciate advice/confirmation on choice of Photo-Video Workstation 'Future Proofed'

    True, that is a fallback, I suspect my hardware could support the change, albeit with a slightly clunky performance. Had waited for the next generation graphic cards and the Intel Q2-18 Xeon CPUs to be updated, could wait a little longer for an ECC compatable Ryzen-Threadripper chipset. The...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Appreciate advice/confirmation on choice of Photo-Video Workstation 'Future Proofed'

    I've tried to find out more about AMD's new Ryzen 3960X CPU with very limited success. I guess a lot is still in the air, particularly on deployment wth a motherboard that supports the new chip's capability of using ECC RAM. A requirement for the CPU component of the system. Unfortunately with...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Appreciate advice/confirmation on choice of Photo-Video Workstation 'Future Proofed'

    Many thanks Moderator-Sir, Will look into your interesting point on the rather significant AMD threadripper performance advantage. I'm a professional photographer who also shoots an increasing amount of video. Most of my processing done with various components of Adobe's Creative software...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Appreciate advice/confirmation on choice of Photo-Video Workstation 'Future Proofed'

    To replace my July, 2014 PC Specialist build that was based on a i7-2600 (quad) CPU I've put together the following spec. Is this overkill? Supporting professional use the price comes to just under £4k. A full workstation O/S with Xeon CPU seems sensible as my work is now for professional...
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