DAW advice for home studio (i7-7800X or i7-7740X ?)

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Dear All,
I would like to re-build my home studio recording.
I use DAW station principally for audio production (Cubase10) and, small, video editing.
My big concern is about processor to install: better to use 4 core with the higher frequencies or 6 core with low frequencies?

Here the specs of my hardware :

Processor:

*Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor i7-7800X (3.5GHz) 8.25MB Cache
or
*Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-7740X (4.3GHz) 8MB Cache

MotherB: ASUS® PRIME X299-A: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s, RGB Ready
RAM: 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
SSD: 1T Evo Samung
POWER: CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
video card: Nvidia Quadro NVS510
videomonitor : LG 43UD79-B
audiomonitor: Yamaha HS5
audiocard: UA Arrow

What do you would you choose?
Please feel free to add your advice.
Thanks in advance for your time.

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It doesn’t seem to make sense to me to buy a quad core x299 platform processor these days. Unless there are some Intel-specific features you need you’d be way better off buying an AMD 8-core Zen-2 processor instead. Of course there are probably other intel CPUs that are better as well.

Search the forum for recommendations. There was a link to scanproaudio recently and you can find performance charts for DAWs on their webpage. For video performance check out pugetsystems or whatever they’re called.

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And what video editing software will you be using?

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Hi
thanks for the reply!
Actually, for video editing, I use to edit with (basic) NCH bundle.
For daw configuration, I just picked up set up for audio pc in “pcspecialist.co.uk”, don’t know if there is real differences using a AMD or Intel at my level.
Thanks also for " scanproaudio" tip, I’ll check it out!