Hi folks, I’m after some help please. I’m speccing up a new dual-xeon workstation and have come to a point where I need to decide between these two configs for VRay rendering: - Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3, S2011-3, Haswell, 12 Core, 2.3GHz, 30MB cache - Intel Xeon E5-2687 V3, S2011-3, Haswell, 10 Cor…

All of the builds that I’ve been quoted from various places today are using the same Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x S2011 motherboard, and I have no idea if it allows for overclocking the bclk at all. I’m asking one of the vendors now, and will report back here with my findings. Even a tiny boost, as you say,…

i did a quick google.. seems “modest” adjustment is about right.. from what i could see you can change the bclk by about 3mhz. even over 12 cores thats not gonna do diddly squat.

Indeed, and it would invalidate the warranty with the vendor as well, so I’ll be leaving it alone.

Unfortunately I don’t have any experience comparing such machines. I would generally prefer a smaller number of faster cores, but if the final performance is the same then I guess I doesn’t matter. Best regards, Vlado

Performance will be very close. I would go with more cores for less $$. Keep in mind that ECC DDR4 ram is not cheap.. You won’t get any NUMA or 64 thread limit problems with 2670v3. I have 14 and 18 core xeons. 14 core work well, with 18 you need workaround because pair of those give you 72 threa…

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Just wondering, Would it not be better power for the $$ if you went with some i7-5960X? I know this could imply a bit of licensing issues. I’m also in the process of looking into expand my render power and I’m just wondering what the overcost would be between xeons and i7. Stan

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Keep in mind that the 5960x will be significantly faster for pretty much everything except the actual act of rendering. Loading scenes, saving scenes, simulating, turbosmooth, displacement, mass fx, animating, viewport playback, all of pflow, etc. are all single threaded. These will all run much slo…

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Xeon 10-core v Xeon 12-core - advice please!

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alexyork February 26, 2015, 8:43am 16

I’m pretty sold on this now. Just waiting to pull the trigger

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