Workstation: Intel Skylake-X or AMD Threadripper

[Dalton Watts]

Going from my 2x 2696v3 workstation to my lady's 4790k I find the viewport performance to be a tad faster (in terms of a couple of FPS), Photoshop / Affinity does some stuff slightly faster (like dragging stuff around I think and applying filters) but ultimately it doesn't affect me at all.

Thanks nkilar! I also don't seem to see any difference between the Xeon's and a 4770K I have laying around here regarding 3ds max performance.

I also second the NVMe placebo regarding 3ds max snappiness. I remember trying the Samsung 950 Pro 256GB NVMe back in July 2016 and didn't notice any difference besides faster file transfers over my 1Tb Samsung 850 Evo.

I don't have any complaints about my dual Xeons 2696v3. They get me 4300CB and are smooth as silk on Corona IR. Though was wondering if one could gain something going to a more capable single thread performant like the 7980XE. Seems not... :)

Gotta get me some Juraj's "Bazaar"...

[Juraj]

They’re the carbon fiber road bikes of the computer world!  Appreciate the heads up, I’ll have to keep an eye on ebay.

eBay lately sucked a lot for me. With all the crypto-buyers, prices are jacked up, even higher than Amazon, which is unusual :- ).

I check stuff at price aggregators like German geizhals.eu, and then I check local Bazaars where people sell stuff lot more cheaply because they don't know how to sell internationally.
Maybe I am using the wrong term for this buy I think you know what I mean :- ). The stuff that predated e-bay heh.