Robert Niessner wrote:My setup:
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X + Noctua NH-U12A
Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P
Corsair Vengeance LPX 128GB (4x32GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18
PNY NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GByte
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 80PLUS Titanium 1000 Watt
WD_BLACK SN850 2TB NVMe; PCIe Gen4
Crucial P5 CT2000P5SSD8 2 TB
Sabrent M.2 2280 SSD Rocket cooler
A few things to consider:
If you populate both NVMe slots with SSDs, you will deactivate one of the three PCIe4.0 slots.
If you are planning to use a faster 10Gbit network in the future you might realize very soon, that the 2.5Gbit don’t cut it and Windows 10/11 does not support link aggregation anymore, so you can’t combine them to 5GBit. So you will need an extra 10Gbit network card.
My board has Thunderbolt 3 so I was able to add that externally.
After I installed the Sabrent cooler onto the SSDs, I realized that those cooler do stick out too much, so I could not install the GPU into Slot 1. The Gigabyte board comes with low profile coolers on their own, but less efficient.
Otherwise the whole setup works great, reliable and super fast. Resolve is running like a dream on this.
16 months later, my second post here.
I have three better motherboards, two are X570 with 3 m.2 slots. Both slots are full Gen 4 speed, the 3rd slot is not. I now have three 2 tb WD SN 850 (two are the faster "X") installed. The third is in a cheap PCIe adaptor and also runs at full speed. It's in the 2nd PCIe slot. All six of my SATA ports are populated and work, as well.
I'm about to buy Resolve, partly as I want to be able to view and edit the 8k and 4k raw files that my Canon R5 is capable of. I understand that editing/rendering can be a challenge, and am wondering if I might keep the RTX 3090 I just scored for $500.. and use it together with my 3080Ti. The former is no faster, but has double the vram. If that was worth it to do, of course, I'd remove the 3rd m.2 drive from that 2nd PCIe slot...