I need to build a new work station to run Chief Architect X7 3D CAD and Raytrace Rendering system for my work. I care nothing about gaming. Pure fast rendering is my focus. Below is my current selection. Please give me you thoughts and recommendation on the following and or better system components.
If you intend on using the integrated graphics on the mobo you'll need a cpu that supports graphical capabilities. On the Xeon line of processors only Xeons that end with 5 have graphical capabilities.
Plainly, a Titan X is not suitable for ray tracing. The Titan X is not a workstation grade card and will never be. It is a high end gaming card with no capability as far as work station grade stuff goes. Problems I addressed with your build. The Define R4 can't dream of really working with all this hardware. I know its been ghetto'd, but this is a $3k+ build. One stick of 16gb's for ram is not acceptable. You want and really need quad channel so I bumped it up to 32gb's in a quad channel ecc kit. I just have a stand in storage solution as I have no idea what your storage situation is, as your build is void of any.
I too agree with caveman's build. For that kind of money, 1 stick of ram is sort of silly. And the Corsair RM series are, IMO, garbage. I love Corsair products, just not the RMs...
Hang on, arent the memory channels tied to the CPU... There isn't some witchcraft I am not aware of is there? How can he even have two CPUs with 1 ram stick, this isn't some kind of strange troll thread?
Make sure the software you use likes the Firepro and/or Quadro, some programs lean towards one or the other. Windows 8.1 Pro N is also a treat too, you can skip some of the junk that normal 8.1 comes with, like media junk that will just clutter up your system.
I don't have experience with the software you use, so I can't provide input on that.
I'm not sure how the motherboard will handle it although I feel it he should stay with this configuration or switch to the Asus Z10PA-D16 for the motherboard and switch to a 8x4gb kit. If he stays with this board he really should go with the 4x8gb to keep 4 slots open for future 64gb capabilities. Although if the motherboard does handle it as 16gb's per cpu instead of a shard 32gb's between them it would run in dual channel mode on this current board.
I ordered the 4x8 and plan the use 16gb per cpu. I also ordered the AMD 8100 gpu. Any other suggested setup recommendations always welcomed. I've build boxes before but nothing like this one. I would have ordered the version"16" had I known. Is it that much better rhan the "8".
The 16 variant of the board and the 8 board are both great but they have minor differences to better optimize your system for a specific work load. The 16 variant has more ram slots, but less pcie expansion. You lose a couple of pcie 16x slots on the 16 that you do get on the 8 variant. You can still get a lot of ram on the 8 variant, but not absolutely crazy amounts like on the 16 variant.
Any final suggestions on configuring the system? Also, i have a 2.5" 750gb sata hd and a wd black2 dual drive both form laptops I would like to use in this new system. Any recommendation on fast disk access configurations?