Multitasking build direction

[A_Reed048]

Hello,

I'm relatively new here (second post) and I would like some input on my build goals, haven't built my own computer in about a decade. It should be fun.

 

I graduated college as of last May and quickly figured out my finances (car, rent, student loan repayment, savings, etc.) and found I still have a "disposable income" left over. So for about the past nine months I've been squirreling away cash in an effort to build a pretty beefy PC. I plan on using this rig for both graphic intensive gaming and CAD/Solid Modeling (Inventor/Solidworks), I am a mentor for a local STEM robotics program on the side so I will also be doing some video editing for tutorials and lessons in said topic.

 

With this in mind I am shooting for a build based around Intel's Enthusiast class processor, 2x SLI Nvidia GPUs (Price:Performance compared to 3x and 4x) and a boatload of RAM (CAD is a RAM hog).

 

So I've got another three months worth of saving up, with some cushion to being able to afford this type of system. Is it wise to wait for Haswell E, GTX 880s (Maxwell) and DDR4 RAM (X99 Chipset), or should I go with current tech? Are my assumptions correct that the enthusiast processor's multi-core support will aid in my CAD software and Video editing needs? I'm I a fool for picking team green for these tasks, can stream do more for me in my needs than cuda?
 

I've learned so much about computers from the YouTube channel over the past year and I am looking forward to learning much more on these forums.

[dragosudeki]

Haswell-E and GTX 800 series? Possibly, still no actual things and Haswell-E will also take awhile more to come out with K processors. DDR4? Not really, seems more useful for servers from what I can see.

[Real_PhillBert]

With this in mind I am shooting for a build based around Intel's Enthusiast class processor, 2x SLI Nvidia GPUs (Price:Performance compared to 3x and 4x) and a boatload of RAM (CAD is a RAM hog).

 

So I've got another three months worth of saving up, with some cushion to being able to afford this type of system. Is it wise to wait for Haswell E, GTX 880s (Maxwell) and DDR4 RAM (X99 Chipset), or should I go with current tech? Are my assumptions correct that the enthusiast processor's multi-core support will aid in my CAD software and Video editing needs? I'm I a fool for picking team green for these tasks, can stream do more for me in my needs than cuda?

 

I've learned so much about computers from the YouTube channel over the past year and I am looking forward to learning much more on these forums.

 

First: Welcome to the forums! It great to see more engineers roaming around here, I myself am a Mechanical Engineer, and I have run into a half a dozen or so other engineers of various disciplines. 

 

Now for the nitty gritty. If you are a STEM mentor (great for you!) get in touch with your Autocad and Solidworks reps and have a detailed discussion on driver support for upcoming consumer GPU's. I know that Solidworks has dropped all driver support for the GTX-700 Series cards as of SW2013, and I would bet a large amount of money you will find a similar story for the upcoming 800 series. I do not know about the status of any of the Inventor products. I do know that PTC does still support consumer cards on Creo 2.0, this is what I use. If you plan on doing a significant amount of modeling, it will be wise to invest in a dedicated modeling gpu. I would suggest a Quadro K2000 or if you can swing the extra cost a Quadro K4000. I have been doing a lot of research for a very similar build for myself as well.

 

Now the good news, you can utilize Cuda cores for most analytical calculations like FEA and CFD. I have done these two myself using Ansys and SWSimulation. So you will not be stupid to still invest in a couple of consumer cards for the Cuda core performance. As for multi core CPU performance, yes more is much better. I dont have anything fancy myself but a good friend of mine build a rig around a 4930 for a simulation machine and it performs incredibly well. I can only assume that the new Haswell-E CPU's will perform even better for various engineering applications.

 

I hope this helped at least a little bit. I am very interested in what your SW and Inventor reps have to say about consumer driver support.

[Megazero]

Well you have 3 months left, so I suggest waiting for Haswell-E and 800 series. Right now we dont know what is it yet and what will it benefit, so there's no real way to tell you until it come out. When you absolutely need a computer, come back here and we will help you build the best one available at that time.