Hi all,
I've browsed answers from this site for some time and with me now being on the fence on a system upgrade plan, I've decided to ask around for possibly my best options.
To start, this is the system I have now...its pretty damn old, but I've been using it for most recent gaming and light video production for some time:
Old Gaming Build:
Motherboard: Sabertooth 990FX
Processor: AMD FX 8150 3.5GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 16GB DDR3 (up to 32GB)
Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 670
HDD: 128GB SSD drive (for OS) + 2TB 7200RPM Platter Drive
Case: Thermaltake Dokker
Other IO: BLUERAY Disk Drive
Old Production Build:
Apple Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 (2009/Nehalem)
Upgraded RAM to 16GB with about 3 platter drives in there, standard OS install, no SSD...stuck on Snow Leopard. I mainly use this system for music production. At the time, it was the most stable option I had.
The reason I mentioned the MAC will become clear in a minute
Originally I was planning on upgrading the systems individually and getting rid of MAC all together for another Win10 system (no under powered trash can for me thanks, and nice of you to royally screw the upgrade plan for creatives Apple :/), but now I'm considering just making a massive system for both gaming and production. If I need to use the system in two rooms, then I'm sure there is a KVM option I can take advantage of.
Here were the two prospect builds if I went with two individual systems:
Gaming Unit:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 FTW (already owned now)
Storage: Intel SSD 600p Series (256GB, M.2 2280) for OS, while using the existing 2TB Platter drive for storage, as well as the old SSD from above as a 128GB cache drive for the platter drive.
Case: Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV PH-ES515ETG_BK
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 220-P2-0850-X1 80+ PLATINUM 850W
Production Unit:
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI Extended ATX Server Motherboard
CPU: Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Haswell 2.4 GHz LGA 2011-3
RAM: Crucial Sdram Memory Module 32 Gb [1 * 32 Gb] Ddr4 Sdram 2133 Mhz ECC
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW
Storage: Intel SSD 600p Series (256GB M.2) + Existing drives
Case: Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV PH-ES515ETG_AG Anthracite Grey
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G2 120-G2-1000-XR 80+ GOLD 1000W
As a note, I tend to leave my systems running 24/7 so they need to be robust.
Those were the two prospects, but now I'm considering just condensing both systems into one massive build instead! The Dual Xeon will be necessary for the video and audio editing perks, and other stats like massive amounts of RAM wouldn't benefit gaming as much, but for audio where I need to load massive amounts of samples into RAM, its really necessary, hence also the importance of ECC RAM as well. Not too thrilled about the energy footprint that will result in the dual Xeon's, but if its overall efficient to go with a single system with KVM instead, hell lets do it.
One question I have then is gaming performance of the dual Xeons vs the i7-6700K since the duals are Haswell and the i7 Skylake. Even though (I think) the i7 would give better single core performance, is that out the window when you're considering two Xeon's at this point? I've already seen how well the duals perform on a Cinibench benchmark and its....wow. I just don't want to end up hindering gaming performance for having the dual Xeon's.
Thoughts or suggestions?
I've browsed answers from this site for some time and with me now being on the fence on a system upgrade plan, I've decided to ask around for possibly my best options.
To start, this is the system I have now...its pretty damn old, but I've been using it for most recent gaming and light video production for some time:
Old Gaming Build:
Motherboard: Sabertooth 990FX
Processor: AMD FX 8150 3.5GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 16GB DDR3 (up to 32GB)
Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 670
HDD: 128GB SSD drive (for OS) + 2TB 7200RPM Platter Drive
Case: Thermaltake Dokker
Other IO: BLUERAY Disk Drive
Old Production Build:
Apple Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 (2009/Nehalem)
Upgraded RAM to 16GB with about 3 platter drives in there, standard OS install, no SSD...stuck on Snow Leopard. I mainly use this system for music production. At the time, it was the most stable option I had.
The reason I mentioned the MAC will become clear in a minute
Originally I was planning on upgrading the systems individually and getting rid of MAC all together for another Win10 system (no under powered trash can for me thanks, and nice of you to royally screw the upgrade plan for creatives Apple :/), but now I'm considering just making a massive system for both gaming and production. If I need to use the system in two rooms, then I'm sure there is a KVM option I can take advantage of.
Here were the two prospect builds if I went with two individual systems:
Gaming Unit:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 FTW (already owned now)
Storage: Intel SSD 600p Series (256GB, M.2 2280) for OS, while using the existing 2TB Platter drive for storage, as well as the old SSD from above as a 128GB cache drive for the platter drive.
Case: Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV PH-ES515ETG_BK
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 220-P2-0850-X1 80+ PLATINUM 850W
Production Unit:
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI Extended ATX Server Motherboard
CPU: Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Haswell 2.4 GHz LGA 2011-3
RAM: Crucial Sdram Memory Module 32 Gb [1 * 32 Gb] Ddr4 Sdram 2133 Mhz ECC
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW
Storage: Intel SSD 600p Series (256GB M.2) + Existing drives
Case: Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV PH-ES515ETG_AG Anthracite Grey
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G2 120-G2-1000-XR 80+ GOLD 1000W
As a note, I tend to leave my systems running 24/7 so they need to be robust.
Those were the two prospects, but now I'm considering just condensing both systems into one massive build instead! The Dual Xeon will be necessary for the video and audio editing perks, and other stats like massive amounts of RAM wouldn't benefit gaming as much, but for audio where I need to load massive amounts of samples into RAM, its really necessary, hence also the importance of ECC RAM as well. Not too thrilled about the energy footprint that will result in the dual Xeon's, but if its overall efficient to go with a single system with KVM instead, hell lets do it.
One question I have then is gaming performance of the dual Xeons vs the i7-6700K since the duals are Haswell and the i7 Skylake. Even though (I think) the i7 would give better single core performance, is that out the window when you're considering two Xeon's at this point? I've already seen how well the duals perform on a Cinibench benchmark and its....wow. I just don't want to end up hindering gaming performance for having the dual Xeon's.
Thoughts or suggestions?
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