>boomer neighbor wants to build a PC for his astrophotography program (Pixinsight)
>reading requirements, they say minimum 64GB RAM, recommended 128GB-1TB
>they have their own benchmarking board https://pixinsight.com/benchmark/
>some madman is running a threadripper pro to spit out these astrophotography pictures, kek
So I'm torn between a system built around a Core Ultra 9 285K or an AMD 9950X3D, with as much RAM as humanly possible, a giant NVME SSD and a GPU capable of driving a couple 4K displays. I want to give him two parts lists, one AMD and one Intel.
For this kind of workload, what would you guys build? I'm a bit out of my element because I'm most familiar with gaming stuff.