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Yes, Sound Design, Film Scoring & stuff.
I went for the @CaseySJ list of components with some minor changes, different ram, different gpu, acoustic dampening case from be quiet, water cooling from corsair, 6 HDD and 2 m.2 ssds, with an internal usb motherboard hub for other stuff, otherwise it's the same motherboard and architecture.
I am on Mojave because I plan not to upgrade for a long time and everything works, depends on what kind of workload are you going to do, for music creation and sound design an 8700k is already overkill I think I wouldn't benefit from the full power of the 9900k for a long time or just on big orchestral projects.
At this point of the industry there are only few plugins which takes the full advantage of the multi-threading capability of DAW's so most of the times you will find yourself working on the basic cores of the processor for example in your case 8.
if you do a lot of Kontakt/Audio Conversion/Audio Processing Mojave is better under every aspect if we compare to nightmares I had with some stuff in High Sierra and it makes sense to buy a better performing processor, I need to better test the sync because it seems to have some micro lags here and there but I'm not really sure until I am able to test it on a proper project.
If you are a music producer, it makes no sense whatsoever pulling in a Xeon or an X processor, I would also stay away from overclocking as stability > performance.
I still have some little issues that I'm resolving, but nothing serious, the machine is solid.
You will have to arm yourself with a bit of patience during the install/troubleshooting phase.
Thank you @xanderevo. Yes, like you, I would prefer to start with the bigger (and working) configuration in order to use it for a long time.
I would be nice if you send me your definitive material list you chose so I can compare with the one I am trying to create.
Do you think the combination: the new i7-9700k 8core&Gigabyte Z390 Designare mother board is better choice for 10.13 Hi Sierra Mac OS or I can run i9-9900K 8core&Gigabyte Z390 Designare on new Mojave 10.14 ?
You said that you had trouble with Hi Sierra, can you tell me more about it ?
Thank you for your advice.
Best regards,
Vivian