Hello, I am new to this forum. Like most, I am seeking help in deciding on a ES E5 chip for a 3D rendering workstation that I want to put together. I started my search about 3 weeks ago. I surfed the web close to its entirely and was about to give up on the ES chips until i found this thread. This thread is most likely the holy grail of ES xeon chips. I spent all night yesterday and some this morning reading though all of the 49 pages - which caught me up to speed on almost everything I need to know.
All I need is consultation so that i don't end up buying the wrong mobo or a bad chip that doesn't reach optimum turbo for most of the cores.. Also, i'm not sure if i should get ECC Ram, or regular DDR4, or DDR3... etc. Also, i don't know what would be a sufficient amount of ram... 16gb?
Since i will be mostly be using Vray and Keyshot for rendering (I know for sure that keyshot can utilize up to 256 cores), I want to focus on obtaining 2 chips with the highest core count... I believe the Xeon E5 2698 v4 is where I should be looking at - 20C and 40T. Having two of these puppies would exponentially increase my workflow here at home. No more leaving my current i7-3615 working all night to get a 300dpi render. Correct me if I am wrong, but GHz does not affect rendering performance... am i right?
As for mobo, i was thinking about the AsRock EP2C612D16-2L2T that was suggested in this
article . The article mentions that this mobo lacks the fast SSD connectios. Should i be looking at a different mobo? Maybe the ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS ? Consequently, I am confused if i need to buy another chip to be able to flash the mobo to update the bios.
Also... I'm clueless at to what power supply i should get and cooling paraphernalia.
Selling my two E5-2698v4 's on ebay.
Toysrme: I saw your post on
ebay . I'm slightly interested. Although, a little skeptical... did you end up fixing your issue booting and installing windows? I know you ended up using several different boards but you were not able to get the bios to read the usb... right? Let me know what you have learned. Could it had been that your chips weren't identical?