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Workstation 2990wx or 7980xe?

Pat Butcher 3

Pat Butcher 3

Pat Butcher 3

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Hi just wanted to know what people would recommend for a workstation build. At present on a dual Xeon e5-2620v3 which is almost unusable at times. I put this down to the low clock speed this cpu runs at as I have serve lag and awful viewport performance in programmes. I use 3ds max Autocad and the usually Adobe stuff.

The 2990wx looks good on paper but again worried about the low clock speed on these cpus

Any advice would be great due to my boss demanding I get one immediately. And money . And money although important is not the major factor as it not a personal pc.

thanks
 
Hi thanks for the replies.

Reason i am a little stuck on this is that you can overclock the 7980xe and also the 9980xe boots higher. I do wait for renders but I wait a lot more with the dire performance i get from the dual Xeons. Autocad and 3ds Max view ports and modelling are also unbelievably slow. The Xeons have a base or 2.4 and are supposed to boost to 3.2 but never seem to.

The 2990wx looks to be lagging behind intel in specviewperf 13 which concerns me.

At the end of the day I just dont want to be in the same boat again because its mental torture at times when you have deadlines to meet and all I seem to be doing is watching a blue icon spinning round for most of it.
 
I hate working on Autocad drawings on this machine. Sheet redraws can take up to 5 minutes.

Problem is I dont think Autocad will ever be multi-threaded, something to do with its code. Its a old, terrible and cumbersome programme but has the market tied up.

If the AMD system will boost to 4.2 all day long when in Autocad and Max then I am sold. This is not the case with the Xeons though and these run constant 2.4 when not rendering.
 
Tell me about that blue circle!

But if you are saying that TR will boost to 4.2 at all times in apps (single threaded) then its perfect. I can imagine its the same as these Xeons thou where view port performance is not really considered and so remains at the base clock.
 
Yeah my initial thought was to go for the 2990wx, I havent had a AMD chip for like 20 years. If the low base speed will boost all day to 4.2 single thread, then I am happy.

Musigaz that would be much appreciated if you could have a look if its not to much trouble.

thanks
 
 
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