Dave Pitman wrote: Carsten, .....
If there is going to be a pretty substantial bump in tech in the next couple of years maybe it's best if I put together something that's just 'good enough' for now.....
I'm not sure I can last until August, but maybe.
Hi.
There will be a lot of changes in the hardware standards in the next 3 years.
The official release of the PCI-E 4.0 Specification have been delayed several times. If offer 2X the speed of the OLD PCI-E 3.0. And have all ready been shown by AMD in both EPYC and Ryzen CPU's. They will both together with the 3rd gen Threadripper be produced on the new 7nm process node which will be faster and cheaper to produce.
There will also be a change in RAM standard. Micron expects to start production of the new DDR5 RAMs at the end of 2019 and they will have 2X the speed of DDR4.
The PCI-E 4.0 specification was much delayed, but the next PCI-E 5.0 is on track and is expected some time in 2021. And will again improve the speed 2X compared to PCI-E 4.0
Quote:
'Obviously at some point the industry transitions to PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 which will necessitate a socket change.'
From the interview with AMD CTO and senior vice president Mark Papermaster, that confirm AMD's plans.
At CES the tech press discovered that PCIe 4.0 may come to all AMD Ryzen Socket AM4 Motherboards first PCI slot. I expect the same to be the case for all Threadripper x399 motherboard first PCI slot. Here is a link:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-r ... 38401.htmlThe 1950x successor 2950x is both faster and $100 cheaper. They both use the x399 motherboards. But if you can wait to August will I recommend the 3rd gen 7nm Threadripper together with one of the a new motherboards with PCIe ver 4.0 in all PCI slots.
Suggest you look here for a Free NVMe RAID upgrade for AMD x399 chipset:
https://community.amd.com/community/gam ... 99-chipsetThe AMD 7nm Radeon VII will be the first Graphics card to come with PCIe ver 4.0. But I wonder if you are using the Studie version of Resolve?
And if you already now or may be later want the use the Hardware Acceleration only working on nVidea graphics cards. Personally I don't like the nVidea RTX line of graphics cards or their prices. But we can always hope that nVidea soon will come with PCIe ver 4.0 graphics cards.
Regards Carsten.