I have just ordered a system based on the Supermicro X11DPL-I board, which I intend to build into my future workstation, but I suspect that when it arrives the included Xeon Bronze 3204 CPUs won't satisfy my performance desires and so I am already browsing around the usual places for upgrades.
I am tempted to go for much cheaper Skylake CPUs now and wait for the Cascade Lake refresh CPUs to come down in price in a couple years, and I see in the motherboard manual that I would lose support for 2933MHz memory and 16Gb DIMMs, but I can live without those for now, is there anything else major that I would miss?
For reference, my workload is mostly compiling, FreeCAD (tends to be single threaded,) and occasional ffmpeg encoding. My current single E5-2690v2 is fast enough, but it is showing signs of aging after ~9 years of 24/7 operation, and of course I want more performance even if I don't really need it.
I am tempted to go for much cheaper Skylake CPUs now and wait for the Cascade Lake refresh CPUs to come down in price in a couple years, and I see in the motherboard manual that I would lose support for 2933MHz memory and 16Gb DIMMs, but I can live without those for now, is there anything else major that I would miss?
For reference, my workload is mostly compiling, FreeCAD (tends to be single threaded,) and occasional ffmpeg encoding. My current single E5-2690v2 is fast enough, but it is showing signs of aging after ~9 years of 24/7 operation, and of course I want more performance even if I don't really need it.