[Kolan]

Hi,
I'm an experimentalist (long time lurker here) who dabbles in CFD. I'm looking to build an office workstation for PIV processing, image analysis (Schlieren etc), 3D rendering, and an increasing amount of OpenFOAM and maybe some Ansys and COMSOL (depending on the University license situation).

I'd like a machine that lets me run exploratory simulations and test cases that can then be sent to our HPC facilities. I'm looking at viscoelastic instability using the likes of rheoTool.

My initial thoughts are:
CPU: Intel - Core i7-9800X (I suspect there'll be memory bandwidth issues pushing all cores?)
Cooler: Noctua - NH-D15 (I find these tend to be as good as a water cooling system)
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (no other reason than I've had good experience with ASUS boards in the past)
Memory: Undecided but the CPU supports 128 GB and I figure I don't really need ECC.
GPU: I've a GTX 1070 that I can use here
Disk: 1TB Samsung Evo. I would like to go solid state, is M.2 nvme worthwhile or should I stick to SATAIII? Might do both. I have a QNAP RAID for local storage.
PSU and Case: 750W is more than enough and I'll stick with Corsair as reliable brands.

I'll be running ubuntu.

I've not had much experience with AMD but I'm open to suggestions. I know they deliver a lot more performance per euro.

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.