Dual Xeon E5-2687W v3 or i7-5960X?

Equine Ducklings

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Building a Workstation for Maya animation and PC gaming at 4K (Witcher 3, DA: Inquisition, Battlefield ect...). I plan to install Windows 10 on the workstation setup. Which will give me better performance and for gaming FPS. The dual Xeon E5-2687W V3 3.1GHz 10-Core or dual Xeon E5-2687W V2 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor? I plan to run 2 GTX Titan X in SLI. When it comes to Maya rendering the Dual Xeon’s 16-20 cores will crush an overclocked 8 core i7-5960X I’m sure. I'm aware that Xeon's are not for gaming but I'm sure they come close in FPS especially the newer games that depend on multiple cores.

Dual E5-2687W v3 - 10 Core - 3.1 – 3.5 GHz
with Crucial 128GB (8 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory

Dual E5-2687W v2 - 8 Core - 3.4 – 4.0 GHz
with Kingston 64GB (8 x 8GB) Registered DDR3-1866 Memory

i7-5960X – 8 Core – 3.0 – 3.5 GHz
with Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Thank you.
 

CTurbo

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There wouldn't be a huge difference in gaming between them. The i7 would be the best in gaming if heavily overclocked, but would get spanked in everything else. Of course 20 cores of Xeon would not be any better than 10 cores of Xeon when it comes to gaming. That being said, the Xeons would still game pretty well.
 

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Yes, im using Maya professionally. Just debating on the E5-2687W v3 or E5-2687W v2 now, i've read that the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS motherboards are slow to boot up, wonder if the ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS has same issue.