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So i'm planning a build for this fall, and i'm wondering which processor to go for. I'm going to be doing some workstation related task like 3D Animation and editing, but also gaming. It seems then that the X99 platform would be better, but i don't know anything about Skylake. So what do you think?

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Around 4500 US dollars

go for x99. it has the extra needed cores for that kind of work there are 10 core xeons at $1000

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When you say some 3D animation/editing etc... how serious are you in terms of doing it? Is it your job? A hobby? Do you do it daily?

 

Some is too vague to recommend 1 thing over another to be honest.

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Around 4500 US dollars

X99 5960X 

 

Dual 980ti

 

32GB RAM

 

knock ur socks off thats a nice budget

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But ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme cuz it has performance like Titan X

Nah if someone is buying a titan x its for the VRAM not the fps difference.

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When you say some 3D animation/editing etc... how serious are you in terms of doing it? Is it your job? A hobby? Do you do it daily?

 

Some is too vague to recommend 1 thing over another to be honest.

 

3D animating generates my income while i'm studying, so yes i do it daily :) 

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3D animating generates my income while i'm studying, so yes i do it daily :)

Alright, in that case X99 would be a wiser purchase.

 

Do you use double precision? As that might impact your GPU choice... in terms of CPU I'd say 5960X and a solid X99 board from your manufacturer of choice.

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Alright, in that case X99 would be a wiser purchase.

 

Do you use double precision? As that might impact your GPU choice... in terms of CPU I'd say 5960X and a solid X99 board from your manufacturer of choice.

 

I do indeed use double precision, and have had trouble with GPU's in the past! Do you have any recommendations? 

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I do indeed use double precision, and have had trouble with GPU's in the past! Do you have any recommendations? 

Well that makes it a bit harder and more expensive, as nvidia decided to ignore double precision performance on the Titan X for whatever reason. There is the Titan Z which probably gives the most double precision for the money from nvidia right now (at 2.6tflops) although it is still $1500 on newegg. AMD have the FirePro W8100 at a more reasonable $1000 and it offers 2.1tflops of double precision performance. I guess it would depend whether or not CUDA or OpenCL is a part of your work flow.

 

Although you may want to verify some of this, I don't pretend to be an expert in the workstation gpu field.

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Well with that money (if you're talking only about PC without monitors and peripherals) i'd go with 5930K and 2x 980Ti and a custom loop.

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Why the heck someone want 12GB VRAM?

1) professional use

2) People who want to have 8x msaa on 3 1080p monitors in surround with sli titan x 

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Well that makes it a bit harder and more expensive, as nvidia decided to ignore double precision performance on the Titan X for whatever reason. There is the Titan Z which probably gives the most double precision for the money from nvidia right now (at 2.6tflops) although it is still $1500 on newegg. AMD have the FirePro W8100 at a more reasonable $1000 and it offers 2.1tflops of double precision performance. I guess it would depend whether or not CUDA or OpenCL is a part of your work flow.

 

Although you may want to verify some of this, I don't pretend to be an expert in the workstation gpu field.

Thank you! i will dig some more into it :)

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