Workstation PC with $4000 budget to beat my $9000 MacPro

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Hi Everyone,

I am a professional audio editor and also make tutorial videos for companys on my 2013 Mac Pro. It is a 12 core E5 xeon at 2.7 ghz with 32gb of 1866mhz ram and a 1tb Pcie SSD. I am wanting more power for faster render times. My system was extremely expensive but it feels like for that kind of money it should be much faster. I am looking to replace it with a custom PC and have a budget of about $4000 that is also very quiet. Any help picking out the best parts to achieve faster renders and handle more virtual instruments and reduce load times. Thank you all!!


Tom
 
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you are not going to get much of an improvement from completely replacing it for $4000. tell us exactly what parts are in it first for a better recommendation. what you have given us doesn't give much of a picture on what your replacing, so there is no way to know if 100% we are really recommending a better machine.

imo, huge waste of money. better off upgrading. im sure you can still use your pcie ssd which is probably a huge chunk of that machine's cost. also, if you are using ddr4 memory, you can just upgrade to 64gb.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 2.4GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor ($609.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 2.4GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor ($609.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus Z10PE-D16 WS SSI EEB Dual-CPU LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($495.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston 64GB (4 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory ($359.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: OCZ RevoDrive 350 Series 960GB PCI-E Solid State Drive ($799.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($308.96 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($308.96 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($169.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $3917.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-10 23:05 EST-0500
 
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^^^this but i would switch the cpus to dual used xeon e5-2690 v3 they are about the same price as new 2630s are faster and have 8 more threads a peice
 
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The specs are.

2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache
32GB (4x8GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
1TB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each

I was wondering if a 5960x, 64gb of ddr4, and a Titan would be a big improvement? The single core performance is a huge let down on the Mac and a lot of virtual instruments will split into single cores being used when running multiple instances. So having somthing that can give me close to twince the single core performance would be amazing.

Since the Mac is still the latest and greatest model I can selling for a pretty penny and fund this project. I dont mind spending over the $4k if its the right thing to do. Thanks for all the input!!

-Tom
 
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When I am running 10 or more instances of Omnishere it splits the the work load into single cores per instance and it is a HUGE performance hit and I am getting a lot of hang up in my sessions. This may also be just an issue with OS X, im not sure.

 
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While doing some research it just doesnt seem like what I want exists. I want something that can pump out some insane single thread performance while having good multi core. I want the single thread of a 6700k but with 12 cores. The price isnt a huge issue but I feel like the technology isnt there yet.

 
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