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First of all, great website!  I'm a musician, not so much a computer type, so I'm asking for a little input on a music workstion I want to build.  I've equipped 2 computers similarly, except one is a single processor and the other is dual.  All the peripherals are basically the same, so I'll give the power differences only.

The first one I have equipped with a single Xeon E5 2680 v2 on an Asus P9X79 WS board.  Ram is 32 GB of Kingston DDR3 1600.  The second is dual Exon E5 2630 v2 on an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS.  Ram is 32GB of Kingston ECC PC3 10600.  Case, video card, psu, etc. is pretty much the same on both.  Both are at the top of my budget, with the single 2680 being about $300 more than the dual 2630's.

I use a lot of vst sample instruments and a lot of plugins on any given song.  I'm also wanting to future proof for the least amount of $ down the line. 

The PassMark charts give the single 2680 a fairly healthy performance rating over the dual 2630's, but are at the top of the single CPU performance, and any significant future upgrade would most like require a dual upgrade with a new motherboard.  My question to those more knowledgeable than myself is which one of these will most likely fill both of the above needs best?  Would it be better to take the extra performance now or set myself up for a CPU only upgrade latter?

Thanks for the input.

 

 

 

 

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You can get away with a lot less - id grab a high end 1150 setup and spend the bulk of money on reliable storage options. Like some big ssds in RAID 1, a multi screen setup etc.

Unsure of what software you use but I could run Cubase with a shit load of vst's on my old i7 950 quite comfortably.

Entirely up to you though its your money - the 2680's are very powerful chips and I'd be choosing that over the dual 2630's in terms of power consumption and having to get a XL case to hold that dual socket motherboard.