Just a short update. I've had my new i9-7940X rig for some days now. It's too early to say but it seems to work ok so far.
I running Pro Tools Ultimate 2018.10. Device is HD Omni together with the HD Native PCIe card. 32GB ram, 2 x M.2 SSDs and 2 x SSDs. All samsung 970 evo and 960 evo series.
VI's : Battery4, Dune2, Nexus2, Sylenth1, Hive, Hybrid, Spire, Strike, Trilian, Pianoteq6, AmpleSound PBass, SampleTank3, Modo, Xpand2, NI (Rickenbacker, PBass, JBass, DrumLab, Strummed Acoustic, Sunburst, AliciasKeys, 80Kit), Korg (M1, Wavestation, Polysix)
But I'm not impessed with the speed of my new rig compared to my old i7-970 rig with only 12GB ram. I was expecting a much faster and more responsive system. I work at 96KHz. There is no chance of being able to work at 64 samples with live VIs. Can't even playback a second befor I get ran out of CPU messages.
Also struggling with 128 and 256.
512 seems to work fine.
I was expecting much more for a $3700 dollar DIY PC rig.