That's a horrible system for $3700 dlls. You can easily shave $1k off if you're smart about shopping for the parts. Also, assuming you're not going for OSX (apples and oranges I know), a thread ripper would be a much better choice for a CPU.

ECC us unlikely to be worth the inflated price, too.

A slightly slower CPU can be had for a significantly lower price. GPUs are a lot more important to most workloads.

... But I didn't mention any of those.

The only reason for an expensive motherboard is to use multiple video cards.

>$200 is not a good price for a PSU. 1000watt is absolutely unnecessary unless you need to power 3-4 GPUs.

My point is that you can easily build a very similar system for half the price. This isn't the rattly '90s. $5000 is a lot for one PC.

If you want to shell out $3700 on PC components, you can build a much more powerful system, especially when you start putting in more GPUs.

> $200 is not a good price for a PSU. 1000watt is absolutely unnecessary unless you need to power 3-4 GPUs.

For sure. I had this argument a few weeks before the iMac Pro came out with someone who insisted that it'd come with an 850W, more likely 1KW+ PSU...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922978

iFixit's tear down? 500W PSU.