CPU advice please.

tclancey

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Jun 6, 2015
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Hi folks.

I'm planning a new PC build, mostly for rendering/software development a ROG Maximus board, 4x1080ti GPU, memory and storage to suit.
The GPU's will take care of the rendering and the minimal gaming I do, but design environments and physics simulations will rely heavily on the CPU.

I used to be pretty up on processors but haven't worked in the business for a while. I'm guessing the i7 7700 is the way to go, but I get confused with the different versions, different speeds, threads etc. Or would I be better off going for a Xeon with more threads and cores and a lower speed?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
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It depends. If what you're doing doesn't require a ton of cores, then you should go with the i7 7700k, and get a z270 board so you can overclock it. If more cores would benefit you though, go with the AMD R7 1700, as it has 8 cores/16 threads and can keep up with the 6900k.

Skylord_Milkyway

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Jul 29, 2016
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It depends. If what you're doing doesn't require a ton of cores, then you should go with the i7 7700k, and get a z270 board so you can overclock it. If more cores would benefit you though, go with the AMD R7 1700, as it has 8 cores/16 threads and can keep up with the 6900k.
 
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