My wish list, with the following tentative parts list. (Note that I have tried to keep the wish list somewhat sane, meaning less than $3,000. In parentheses below, I have listed what I would buy if money were no object.)
(I mostly do word-processing and light games, but occasionally, I run statistical regressions that take several hours to run on a 4 core processor, but which are almost perfectly linearizable, i.e. whose processing time almost perfectly scales with core-count.)
Gigabyte X399 Designare EX (rev. 1.0) sTR4 AMD X399
AMD 1st gen Threadripper 1950X 16-core
(And if I am *really* dreaming, a 2nd gen 2990WX 32-core)
Enermax Liqtech TR4 II 280 AIO liquid cooler
SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 2TB
(And if I am *really* dreaming, a 970 Pro. Or heck, a 1.5 TB Intel Optane 905P.)
ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX 570
(And if I am *really* dreaming, an RX Vega 64. I have a FreeSync monitor, so I'm sticking with AMD.)
Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 1000W 80+ Power Supply
32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) ECC Unbuffered RAM by Nemix
(And if I am *really* dreaming, 128 GB (8x16GB).)
Undecided on case, but I want it to have silencing foam:
Enermax EQUILENCE
Thermaltake Suppressor F51
Phanteks Eclipse P400S
APEX Silent Edition Apexgaming G1
be quiet! SILENT BASE 800
Fractal Design Define XL R2