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Hi All, I have read some building advice in here but I am unsure of where to start. I have always been a Mac user, but the last 10 years Mac has pretty much given up on Pro Mac people since their new cash cow are iPhones. They claim to be releasing a up-gradable pro machine this year but I know that machine is going to be to expensive.

I work in video production and graphics and do a lot of 3D modeling with Cinema 4D for clients. Few years back apple screwed up Final Cut Pro and most most all production houses switched to Adobe Premiere. So now there are no special Mac based software.

I want to build my own machine to have some ownership over it. I have been reading about threadripper and it sounds like the 24 core is about my speed. I still use my Mid 2010 Mac Pro 6 core 3.33 Ghz. It works, OK. But a recent project that was 5 seconds long took 36 hours to render. Cinebench rated my machine at 767 and I am seeing some Threadrippers out there that are 4500 score.

Can I get recommendations on motherboards to use, cases and to use liquid or air cooled? Not sure that I want to over clock the machine. Articles that I read say that you can cause problems to your machine by over clocking. I just want a faster machine. I will buy the parts over time and have a budget of around $5K

any help would be great for a first time building with almost no PC / Windows experience.
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If you want more than 16 cores, then ThreadRipper is your best bet for sure. However, 16 cores on the mainstream AM4 platform is pretty much confirmed at this point mid-2019, so that might be worth considering.

Overclocking is pretty simple these days, but honestly, with 2nd gen Ryzen and Ryzen TR it's not really all that necessary since XFR2 works pretty well.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 2970WX 3 GHz 24-Core Processor ($1228.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Wraith Ripper 76.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG Strix X399-E Gaming EATX TR4 Motherboard ($349.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws 4 series 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($229.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.93 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($147.99 @ Newegg Business)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($706.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Phanteks - Enthoo Pro TG RGB Special Edition ATX Full Tower Case ($137.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $3129.73

You could grab an RTX 2080Ti instead if you wanted, but I'm not sure it's really necessary. You could also jump up to the 16 core 2990WX if you wanted. Add whatever capacity HDD(s) you require. Also, for the case, I'd wait a week and grab a Phanteks Eclipse P600S when they're out instead of the Enthoo Pro, but the Enthoo Pro is fine too.
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