Here’s the current build I’m working on at PCPartPicker.com, so I’m going to build it myself. A couple comments.
* Please comment! I’ve messed around a lot successfully inside PCs, but never built one. Any comments welcome, particularly those that reduce costs, increase performance, reliability and future proofing. I’ve researched this pretty well now and made some cost benefit decisions, but I am not a computer guru.
* Correct, I do need a quadro card to display 10 bit color in PS on my NEC monitor.
* The motherboard is wired for LAN, and the case includes cooling fans, so I don’t think I need anything more there.
* Zerene Stacker currently doesn’t use GPU, but does use GHz, multiple cores and processors (but multithreading doesn’t help much), and fast SSD
* No news yesterday on a new Power Mac at Apple’s developers conference.
My proposed machine:
Processor
Intel - Core i7-7820X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor. $469.99
CPU Cooler
NZXT - Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $146.49
Motherboard
Asus - PRIME X299-A ATX LGA2066 Motherboard. $278.49
Memory
G.Skill - Sniper X 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $679
Storage
Samsung - 960 Pro 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $572.75
2 Hitachi - Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $123.99 each
Video Card
PNY - Quadro P2000 5GB Video Card. $429.99
Case
Fractal Design - Define R5 Blackout Edition ATX Mid Tower Case. $99.99
Power Supply
SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply. $110.03
Operating System
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit. $95
Optical Drive
Asus - DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer. $18.19
Total: $3151