Workstation Build, Single socket or dual socket?

[estoque]

I'm going to use this workstation for video editing and after effects. 

 

Planned components

CPU: Intel E5-2630 v3 *2

Mobo: Supermicro X10DAX

RAM: Samsung DDR4 16G PC4-17000 ECC/REG *4

GPU:  PNY GTX 980ti CG edition 6gb

SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1tb

HDD: HGST 4TB Deskstar HDS724040ALE640 *2

PSU: Corsair AX1500i

 

This is my question. When I googled for best performance video editing PC, some articles said X99 board with 5960X + ECC memory is better than dual socket xeon build. 

 

Is it real that dual socket build is waste of money?

 

And also, all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[CobbleWalker]

8 minutes ago, estoque said:

I'm going to use this workstation for video editing and after effects. 

 

Planned components

CPU: Intel E5-2630 v3 *2

Mobo: Supermicro X10DAX

RAM: Samsung DDR4 16G PC4-17000 ECC/REG *4

GPU:  PNY GTX 980ti CG edition 6gb

SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1tb

HDD: HGST 4TB Deskstar HDS724040ALE640 *2

PSU: Corsair AX1500i

 

This is my question. When I googled for best performance video editing PC, some articles said X99 board with 5960X + ECC memory is better than dual socket xeon build. 

 

Is it real that dual socket build is waste of money?

 

And also, all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Wait for pascal GPUs.

[Ophidio]

Dual socket builds are better for actual server cases where multiple people are having to use the system. For you only using it you would do fine with just a 5930k or 5960x if you really wanted to go with an extreme edition. Or you could still go with a Xeon if you really wanted to on the X99 platform. But for a single person there really is no need to have dual socket build unless you feel like you're going to be letting multiple people use this system at a time in the future. Also wait for the 1080 to come out and get that instead. It's to close to its release to not wait if you want a top of the line editing machine at this time. 

[2FA]

9 minutes ago, estoque said:

I'm going to use this workstation for video editing and after effects. 

 

Planned components

CPU: Intel E5-2630 v3 *2

Mobo: Supermicro X10DAX

RAM: Samsung DDR4 16G PC4-17000 ECC/REG *4

GPU:  PNY GTX 980ti CG edition 6gb

SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 1tb

HDD: HGST 4TB Deskstar HDS724040ALE640 *2

PSU: Corsair AX1500i

 

This is my question. When I googled for best performance video editing PC, some articles said X99 board with 5960X + ECC memory is better than dual socket xeon build. 

 

Is it real that dual socket build is waste of money?

 

And also, all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Check out Barnacules on Youtube, he has a very similar machine to the one you listed.

[The Flying Sloth]

It is really up to you.  http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2630-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5960X 

 

   the dual Xeons will be overkill and futureproofing while the I7 will be good enough for a while. I personally run 3 different dual GPU setups and for video/music production/editing they work perfectly. The xeon is a far better (albeit more expensive) build and if you wait for Pascal/Polaris GPU's to become available and do a build log your rig will be one to be truly envied

 

 

[Aereldor]

I think it would depend on how much you can afford to spend. A dual-socket motherboard will let you use two CPUs which have a large number of cores and threads. This directly correlates to better performance in multi-threaded workloads, but it's extremely expensive.

Several times more expensive.

 

Another thing that dual-socket 44-core machines like that overkill monster Linus just built are useful for are running a slew of virtual machines- if I'm not wrong, he ran ten VMs off that? However, the extra expense isn't going to scale very well to performance if you're the only person using it. I'd still recommend a Core i7 5960x and a GTX 1080, or waiting for the 10-core Broadwell-e 6950x. If you can afford to even consider a dual-socket Xeon workstation built, you can probably spend $1500 on a CPU.

[Aereldor]

1 minute ago, The Flying Sloth said:

It is really up to you.  http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2630-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5960X 

 

   the dual Xeons will be overkill and futureproofing while the I7 will be good enough for a while. I personally run 3 different dual GPU setups and for video/music production/editing they work perfectly. The xeon is a far better (albeit more expensive) build and if you wait for Pascal/Polaris GPU's to become available and do a build log your rig will be one to be truly envied

 

 

Do not use CPUboss, GPUboss, or any other '***boss' sites for comparing benchmarks.

[The Flying Sloth]

1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

Do not use CPUboss, GPUboss, or any other '***boss' sites for comparing benchmarks.

It was to illustrate, I also do not condone using boss sites to choose hardware but as both CPU's have similar performance the site served my purpose.

[multifrag]

Dual or quad xeons are not waste of money if what you're doing will pay for it. Building a dual xeon board for a hobbyist is on expensive side and most of the times you won't be using all the power 24/7. I have a dual xeon setup, but It helps me with my work, what a single cpu would not be able to. Look into cinebench results as rendering part is most important for you