Sorry, I'm absolutely incapable of reading figures about clock speeds or any of the stuff where math gets involved. I read the article, many thanks Juraj it's much appreciated like all your contribution across the board! but this technical stuff leaves me puzzled and I'd really like to get deeper into this as the basic idea sounds cool and with the prices mentioned I could imagine myself building a new rig this coming winter.
Using this guide, could I build an efficient workstation by todays standards? I now have a i7-4930K with 32 GB of ram, using Windows 10. Most of all I'm looking to upgrade because I want at least 64 GB or optimally 128 GB of RAM, assuming Corona, Forest Pack et al can utilize it because I hate the way I need to optimize my models every time I render a larger aerial scene with a lot of dense scattered Forest objects. Could this guide be used as a base for something like this and if I also wanted to gain some rendering speed compared to my current i7, how wide would my options be regarding the Xeons? For instance I'm browsing the Amazon link and seeing prices ranging like this:
2 x Intel Xeon L5630 Quad-Core (12M Cache, 2.13 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel QPI) 49EUR
2 x Intel Xeon X5690 SIX-Core (12M Cache, 3.46 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel QPI) 599EUR
Now I didn't look through benchmarks and am not up to date so that lower one could be a pretty new model for all I know, but assuming these are pretty much on par regarding efficiency/pricing and that second one if just so much more power and the price justified, is it just up to me to choose what ever model my wallet can afford or would I be running into problems here? Maybe it would be better to start a thread once I'm settled with what I think would be a good rig but for now I'd just appreciate it if someone with more smarts and up to date info could confirm / debunk a work/gaming station built using Jurajs excellent guide as a base.
One more thing, that gaming aspect I briefly mentioned.. could this also serve as a gaming rig if I jammed my current GeForce 980ti in it? I don't game much but still enough so that I have for example the Witcher 3 which is a notable resource hag -would the different processor architecture take away FPS, maybe?
If you guys could answer and correct my very limited understanding here, I'd appreciate it a ton!
