I got great answers last time. I settled for DELL system though. More confident now to go for assembled system. If you could suggest a good configuration that would render fast with xeon processor with decent graphic card. Softwares- Maya, Realflow, After Effects, C4D. Budget limit: 2000 USD Max.
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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks
Looking for Xeon based system for 3D Modeling & rendering- under USD2000
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sadams04
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Your comparable CPU here would be the XEON E5-1650, but at a much higher cost. The i7 below will perform nicely.. Feel free to swap out the Quadro for a GTX 1080 if you prefer.
http://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/Td98TW,dn648d/
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($414.79 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X31 69.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($68.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($189.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY Quadro K4200 4GB Video Card ($758.16 @ Jet)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($68.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1890.37
http://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/Td98TW,dn648d/
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($414.79 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X31 69.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($68.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($189.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY Quadro K4200 4GB Video Card ($758.16 @ Jet)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($68.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1890.37
sadams04
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Or if you truly want an emphasis on the CPU...
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V4 2.2GHz 12-Core Processor ($1098.14 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Universal 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($189.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Video Card ($246.39 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($68.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $2040.04
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V4 2.2GHz 12-Core Processor ($1098.14 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Universal 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($189.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Video Card ($246.39 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($68.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $2040.04
Thank you sadams04 for the quick answer. Looks good to me. Just two thoughts- I would like to knon if I jack up the cores a bit for rendering speed to say to 8 from the present 6 that you had suggested, would there be a good cpu for that? I do a lot of rendering, so that will be a great advantage. Secondly, Is there a reason that Xeon is costing 200 USD more? I am very happy with my present XEON which I run for days withoug any problem at all. So should I worry on any count if I choose i7 instead of Xeon? Psychologically I feel Xeon is better, but I don't know why I do that. Probably because I am more comfortable with my Xeon than the 6 PCs with i7 that I have. Would be great to know.
Thank you once again sadams04! Looks good to me with the processor core this time. 12 cores is 24 threads, great for rendering for sure. Appreciate your time and quality response. I'll wait a while to see if I get any other suggestion before closing on this.
sadams04
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With respect to keeping hyperthreding and at least a clock speed of 2.4GHz there aren't a lot of good options better than the i7. https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#s=27&C=8,22&sort=a7&h=1&Z=2400,4700
Because of the name. seriously though... In the comparison link above you will see that they are both 14nm with the same amounts of L1, L2 and L3 cache. I.E.... the same manufacturing line with the main differences being the base clock and turbo speeds.
It is hard to balance cores with clock speed and still keep things cost effective. The i7 offers great performance with a high clock speed for a low price. The more cores is nice to have, but not when they are significantly slower.
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