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Thoughts ?
No point going socket 2011 for a quad core.
The main point of socket 2011 is getting 6 or more cores at the same speeds as socket 1055 chips.
As a 3D/ cad user (I'm a Cinema 4D user myself) you actually can put those extra cores to good use.
But either step up to a 3930k, or save a lot of cash & get a socket 3770k, some tasty cooling & clock the crap out of it.
3D/ CAD is not memory bandwidth -constrained, which would be the only other reason for getting socket 2011.
You might also consider an i7 860 as a convinient drop-in upgrade, so long as the price is reasonable, because you could keep your current motherboard.
No point going socket 2011 for a quad core.
The main point of socket 2011 is getting 6 or more cores at the same speeds as socket 1055 chips.
As a 3D/ cad user (I'm a Cinema 4D user myself) you actually can put those extra cores to good use.
But either step up to a 3930k, or save a lot of cash & get a socket 3770k, some tasty cooling & clock the crap out of it.
3D/ CAD is not memory bandwidth -constrained, which would be the only other reason for getting socket 2011.
You might also consider an i7 860 as a convinient drop-in upgrade, so long as the price is reasonable, because you could keep your current motherboard.
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I agree with above. The 3820 is very very similar to the 3770k, and as the 1155 setups are cheaper id go for that, unless you can afford the 3930k which is well worth the money.
RAM is also important, Get as much Ram as you can, the faster the better too. 32gb of 1866-2100mhz would be great.
got a budget in mind?
RAM is also important, Get as much Ram as you can, the faster the better too. 32gb of 1866-2100mhz would be great.
got a budget in mind?
This link may be of interest to you.
http://cadspeed.wordpress.com/2011/...re-configuration-for-solidworks-cad-software/
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I thought the z77 boards would take a max of 32GB
Depends on what version of windows you have, the OS dictates the amount of ram you can use, not so much the mobo.
z77 are 32gb max but some of the older x79 boards are 64gb