I7 vs e5 quoted build

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ericguizzetti

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I have a complex workflow.. Day in Day out I work with Revit, 3DS Max, Civil 3d, Fuzor, Oculus, Adobe creative suite, 4k video, etc...

I am looking at two potential builds and any commentary would be helpful...

1. DUAL XEON E5-2643v4 3.4GHz, 20MB cache, 9.60 QPI (Six-Core)
128GB DDR4-2400 REG ECC (8 - 16GB DIMMS)
2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB - Extended Lead Time
480GB SSD SATA 6Gb/s
120GB SSD SATA 6Gb/s
2TB 7,200rpm SATA 6Gb/s
20X Dual Layer DVD–RW Writer

vs...

Intel i7 Eight Core Enhanced Performance Processor 4.125 Ghz
128GB DDR4-2133 (8 - 16GB DIMMS) - Extended Lead Time
2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB - Extended Lead Time
512GB SSD M.2 PCIe Drive
120GB SSD SATA 6Gb/s
2TB 7,200rpm SATA 6Gb/s
20X Dual Layer DVD–RW Writer

trying to figure out the smarter of the two to purchase...
 
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k1114

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The 2643v4 is a bad value. For the same price you can get double the cores with only a small decrease in speed. Like a 2660v4, the turbo goes to 3.2ghz so it's not that much slower for single core performance but you'd have 28 cores vs 12. Render times would be a lot faster since most of those are cpu based. Unless your software is limited in the number of cores it can use but the ones you listed are not. You do know that only a gpu renderer would use both gpus? Most of those software would only use 1. Even if the other build is the top of the line 6950x, you could beat it with a dual xeon build of a similar price. You'd have to drop down to like a 2630v4 but 20 cores at 2.2ghz is better than 10 at 3ghz.
 
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ericguizzetti

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Thanks for your response. I will look at the 2660v4 and get a quote for it. The reason for the multiple GPU has to do with Oculus utilization of right eye left eye GPU useage. It sounds like your a firm believer in Xeon above the i7's and I feel the same way. Allot of people that I have chatted with always try to tell me Xeon's are a bust and waste of money.

 
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Mr Kagouris

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Xeon E5s are Intel's most workstation and server oriented CPU line, and includes the highest performing CPU configurations (either single CPU or dual CPU) available on the market (at least for multi-core applications). The 2011-3 i7s are good if you need a mix between great multi-core and great single-core and are willing to overclock.

By the way, with Pascal I believe you don't actually need two GPUs (although it helps a lot performance-wise). Nvidia introduced some new technology with Pascal that allows their 1000-series GPUs to only render an image once for VR instead of having to deal with double the work of a regular display. I'm not familiar with how this will affect your work (if you're making VR content), but it should be worth looking into.
 
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ericguizzetti

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Thanks for your input. To be honest this building is being paid for by my work. I can spend around 12 grand and its not a huge problem. I want to maximize my dollars so shooting for the stars with this build. Hopefully this system will stand up to a couple years of abuse. We also work with extremely large models and Fuzor has the ability to run side by side with Revit. Fuzor basically turns REvit into a rendered 3d video game. Its a great piece of software but take a toll on my current single processor E5-1650 machine with 64gigs of ram and a K4000 Nvidia card.

 
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ericguizzetti

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I was looking more at speed than price. More cores versus speed or vice versa. $1,000. versus $3,000 at the end of the day is small investment to make.
 
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