Hi.
X470 motherboards is not recommended for DaVinchi Resolve as it only have PCIe lanes for one M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD.
I have made a small guide for a recommended build. Here is a copy and paste of it to you:
'Carsten's hardware guide for DaVinchi Resolve. Version from 23. August 2018.
In Resolve the CPU is used to run the app, disk I/O and compression and decompression of codecs.
Resolve does all its image processing in the GPU on the graphics card. More CUDA/OpenCL Cores are better.
I will suggest you to look at the new nVidea RTX Video Card serie. For 4K choose one with 8-11 GB of vRAM. And more CUDA cores is better. In the last days there have been price drops on the previous generations GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti on Amazon.com. There is a maximum of one graphics card in the free version of Resolve.
In the DaVinci Resolve 15 configuration guide is one of the suggestion on page 18 the AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... and-fusionAll AMD CPU's loves fast memory, and on page 36 under GIGABYTE Motherboard:
16GB (4x4GB RAM) DDR4-3200 SDRAM minimum
64GB or 128GB or more recommend for FUSION
Last Monday, August 13th did AMD launch AMD Threadripper next generation with a little cheaper CPU's. For 4K work look at the new 16 cores 32 threads 2950X that get much better reviews than expected and can be delivered worldwide from 31th August.
When I try to check prices don't I yet see any big price drops on the previous 16 core 32 threads Threadripper 1950X CPU's. So far for 16 core 32 threads CPU will I recommend the new 2950X. While I currently see some large price drops on the 12 core 24 threads 1920X CPU's. May be you can choose it for HD 1920 x 1080 only.
Both the old and new Threadrippers CPU use a TR4 socket and a X399 motherboards. Suggest you to buy one with nice reviews. If you later want to upgrade to a faster CPU will I suggest you to buy a Asus motherboard, as they can be upgraded to a TDP of 250 Watt by buying the X399 cooling enhancement kit coming to September.
For CPU's with more than 20 cores will I look for a motherboard with a 16+3 VRM circuit.
Look here for a Free NVMe RAID upgrade for AMD X399 chipset:
https://community.amd.com/community/gam ... 99-chipset All motherboard have a QVL List you can find on the manufactures homepage. Here you can see what DDR4-Ram they have tested in that particular motherboard. The Configuration Guide recommend to use minimum DDR4-3200.
The cheapest recommended RAM is many times the G.Skill Flare X DDR4. The Flare X series is made special for AMD CPU's
The Threadripper CPU's have a 4 channel memory design. You will get the fastest system by using 4 DIMM's only, and leave the last 4 sockets empty.
Do you still have some questens you are free to ask.
Regards Carsten.'
Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:46 pm