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I am building a new Workstation and have two builds, wanted thoughts on which one and why?

  1. i9-13900k, 192Gb ram on Z790 MB
  2. 5955WX, 256Gb ram, WRX80 Creator 2

I am having fun with movies and use Davincie resolve 18, have also gotten into photo stacking with images up to 122 RAW images so far its a good stack. Have a catalog of up to 26ooo images that i use daily and also like running a VM for Linux and have occasionally build world in FreeBSD to just pull out the last of my hair.

My dream would be to have a RHL machine and run windows 11 in a VM with its own Video card. Most likely that is still a dream no matter what HW i purchase.

I already have video cards and PSU and M.2 drives. I am leaning on the TR as I have never built such a beast before and can always up the chip to a 64 core later. The i9 appears to be a dead end if Intel decides to change up the socket.

I do some gaming but usually on a console.

Thoughts ?

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Hi, welcome to the forum! That sure is a lot of RAM, I guess you can’t have too much though?

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Actually, both platforms are effectively EoL (end of life) as AMD launches a new TR (Pro?) platform for their DDR5 based workstations sometime in the (near?) future. Intel is adhering strictly to their alternating tik-tok mechanism: one year a socket change, the next a node change.

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Z790 is limited in lanes - check W 790 WS boards eg ASUS ACE - VMs should run on workstations with ECC RAM. WRX80 Creator 2 is of poor quality and support is a nightmare and as allready mentioned it’s an EOL - platform. If you are not in a hurry / under pressure just wait for ZEN4 or Emerald rapids.

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I would consider using bigger DIMMs on that 13900K. You won’t even be able to fit a UEFI update with that little.

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IF you’re looking to run, A LOT of peripherals / VMs, the WRX is your no quarrel option.
Obviously we await, how much of an uptick, to be brought on table [TR/TRPro 7xxx]

Choosing the lesser core variant, as you have chosen, does offer sizeable single thread bump [Whenever compared, to the higher cored SKUs]. Pricing of components, would be more manageable, across the board–> + some ECC support [handful on QVL]

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I did hear something about that but not sure of timeline ?

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Hummm, i thought i saw the LVL1 Tech video and it meantions this MB is known for being good with Linux and it was stable ?

What did i miss??

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I was reading up on using a ramdrive for linux variants.

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Going by Puget Systems benchmarking (Hardware Recommendations for DaVinci Resolve) the 13900k is slightly better for Davinci Resolve.

The intel platform is faster single core speed and consumes less power, but is significantly limited on memory and pcie lanes. You might be able to upgrade to 256GB when 64GB dimms come out, but there is to guarantee that the IMC can/will support that.
Z790 will support 14th gen cpus (the bios updates for “next generation cpus” came out in July, but the 14900k probably wont be a massive upgrade over the 13900k.

If <200 GB of ram and ~28 pcie lanes are enough, intel desktop is cheaper and faster in lightly threaded workloads. If you need or want room to expand, go threadripper.

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