My beastly laptop is just about ready for retirement! Time for a new PC.
I'm coming from a 4 Xeon (well, 8 with hyperthreading) with 64GB of ram and a Quadro M2200 in my laptop.

Any thoughts on MainGear's VYBE rig [maingear.com]? I've got a budget of about $2,500 USD
Their markup seems reasonable and the hassle of not putting it together myself is worth it. Self assembly sounds like fun but...
"Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming" (Taking the advice from the guys at Entagma)

Here's what my budget gets me at MainGear:
AMD RYZEN 7 5800X - 8-Core - 3.8 GHz (Boosts to 4.7 GHz)
64GB HyperX Predator DDR4 3600MHz (2x32GB)*
M.2 NVMe SSD**
4TB Seagate Barracuda Desktop HDD*
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI - MATX
MAINGEAR EPIC - 240mm Liquid Cooling
EVGA 750W SuperNOVA B2

*I have the option to add in two more 32GB sticks which I'll probably do later
**Not a lot of storage but I've got my own drives I'll be bringing from my laptop to supplement this.

In short:
1. Anyone have any experience purchasing or using anything from MainGear?
2. How does the Ryzen 5800X do with Houdini?


Any thoughts appreciated!