Workstation, or Gaming Rig?

Budget:
Unknown, Likely 3-4k

Expectations:
Need a powerful desktop for Gaming (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on High Settings, AutoCAD drawings, files, Intense/Big Rhino 3D Files, Environmental Simulations (fluid dynamic modelling, climate modelling), Photoshop/Indesign, Adobe Suite, Architectural Rendering

Usage:
8-12 hours per day, minimum

Special Needs:
Unknown

Saved Ticket #: None

Specifications:
Would like an RTX, I9 or Ryzen, not picky right now.

Basically I want to know if it is better for me to get a workstation, or a gaming computer. I know a gaming rig will work well w/ both, but I know a workstation will work better for the engineering/climate simulation and architecture work. I do more architecture work for sure, but when I use my flight simulator I want to get excellent performance as well.

I do not know well the key differences between "workstation" and "gaming rig" as to me if you buy a good gaming rig your specs are not that far off from a workstation as well.

Would love feedback/advice.

Thanks everybody for the advice and guidance!

Sounds like I should start with a workstation rig buildout, and maybe change the GPU to a gaming oriented GPU, which I know will also perform well for my CAD software. . I do not think I need the Xeon processors, or the Quadro's.

Definitely do not need ECC, but will go with minimum 32GB RAM. My last desktop build had 2 GTX Titans, 64GB RAM, i7 Extreme, built it in 2014...unfortunately I had to sell it, and going to college it became not worth it for me to have a desktop. But now...given the research I am doing and whatnot, I think I need it again.

For FS, yes, right now I have 1000mbs service, unlimited gbs/month, so that should not be an issue. I get around 200-300mbps on wifi in my house w/ my entire family on their devices, and if I plug into Ethernet I can get 800-1000mbs, which is more than enough.

In all likelihood I won't be buying this rig until December/January, Have to save up a bit more. But I just wanted to get a feel/start planning a bit see what I might be spending, etc.

Right now I have been eyeing the Aventum X, or on the workstation side, the Velox Studio. Obviously both with some changes to the base components.

Definitely would go w/ an M.2 NVMe for my primary drive, and then SSD's for otherwise. I have to do some digging on the storage aspect of MSFS 2020, I know it is streamed, but depending how big it is on the disk, I might put it on a second drive, in which case I would not two M2.NMe's. I have been simming for 15 years, and in all the versions I have had, we have always been advised to install FS on a separate drive, not the C drive for performance reasons. Not sure if that is still the case w. MSFS 2020.

Thanks again guys, I will surely be back with rig options :)

you're talking less than 50GB drive space for the OS+future updates.  i think MSFS has plenty of space on a 1TB NVMe drive.

i don't believe you need to worry about the OS read/write accessing hitting your gaming performance on a large and super fast NVMe drive tbh.  however, if you're concerned go ahead and put your games on a drive of their own.