BigFig

Just make them Pan, then the orientation doesn’t matter

All good I figured that was the case

Periodically, not sporadically

FYI many of Corsair’s PSUs are just their branding slapped on a different company’s part (made for them obviously), so some are okay to good, and some are trash

Edit: To be clear I use a ton of Corsair products (RAM, AiO, KB+M, Case, Fans) so not shitting on them, though their software is absolute dog shit tier. iCue will randomly disappear from my system every so often, only for all the files to still be there…but no executable.

Most of their products are produced in places like China but their RAM is still produced in Taiwan and high quality

Highlighted here is what I meant. Mobos have a max amount of memory supported but looks like you are well below that, the max on this board being 192GB

I will point out that, without overclocking the maximum speed ram supported is 5600 MHz and youve picked out 5200 MHz, not sure how much of a boost it’d be but maybe look into that.

ALSO when you do get this build all set up, please please please check your BIOS and make sure that the ram you buy IS operating at the advertised MHz, sometimes they say one thing, but ship out of the box a little lower and you have to set it to the advertised speed. Frustrating to find out a year later that you’ve been using your system slower than it had to be.

It’s not really something people think of if they’re not a hardcore user of rendering and editing software

Your list looks good to me, the difference between that Intel and the X3D is pretty small but leaning towards the Intel and if you do more cpu rendering than GPU that’s probably best for you. Only things I can think of are double check that mobo for it’s max ram support, maybe throw in some 2tb HDDs for bulk file storage

As much as I dislike Nvidia, cuda cores are THE metric used by art and design programs. I would stick with them in this case