I'm planning on building a computer later this year in the fall but I'm unsure of which platform to use, Z97/X99/AM3+. At work I have a X99 workstation:
- Xeon 1620-v3 @ 3.7Ghz 4-core HT
- Quadro K4200
- 32GB RAM
Running windows 7 I work with CAD (mainly single threaded ex Solidworks & Inventor) and system modelling (mainly multi-threaded ex Monty Carlo simulations) software. I don't want/need to do the same work flow at home. I've never used two computers from the same brand chipset at one time much less the same model. Is there any benefits in platform uniformity?
I only see the benefits if you need to trouble shoot something. If you have issues you can swap parts around and see what's up without having to do guesswork on what the chipset or whatever is doing to it.
No. Not really. Unless you want to have consistent performance between work and home PCs, then getting something with the same or similar hardware would be beneficial. But other than that (or the rare chance for some kind of bug or incompatibility issue with your software and new hardware), no. There's no real practical reason for it.
Trouble shooting hardware or software errors could be helpful by using a presumably stable computer as a reference. Redundancy would prevent any down time in case of issues.