Asus X99 deluxe vs R5E for my purposes

[nubz]

Hi All,

I am planning to build a new machine when Nividia releases the Pascal cards, and i would love some help deciding on a mobo - as the title says, between the Asus x99 deluxe, and the rampage 5 extreme.

I will be using it primarily for 3D - rendering, animation etc using software such as 3ds max, lightwave, Octane-render. But i also play games often, and i do not plan to overclock. This is why i struggle to decide between these two boards.

ill be running 2 Pascal GPU's which will power my 3d renders and SLI when im gaming, and a third video card (probably one of the ones i currently have now) which will power my displays when i am rendering.

So if i am not going to overclock, what does the R5E really offer me over the deluxe? its a gamers board, but what exactly does that have thats better for gaming that the deluxe does not?

Any help/opinions/input is appreciated

 

[geofelt]

I always wonder what the description "gamers" really means.
The value of X99 is that the motherboard has 40 pcie lanes which can be divided up in various ways. Today, two at X8/X8 are sufficient for sli.
There will be a third at X8 for your added graphics card.
I see no issue there.
I think perhaps the R5E will have a superior audio .
What cpu will you be using?

If your main use is rendering, then buy a many core cpu.
The offset to that is that for gaming, you will lose the single thread speed that is important for gaming.

 

[nubz]

I always wonder what the description "gamers" really means.
The value of X99 is that the motherboard has 40 pcie lanes which can be divided up in various ways. Today, two at X8/X8 are sufficient for sli.
There will be a third at X8 for your added graphics card.
I see no issue there.
I think perhaps the R5E will have a superior audio .
What cpu will you be using?

If your main use is rendering, then buy a many core cpu.
The offset to that is that for gaming, you will lose the single thread speed that is important for gaming.

im planning on an i7 5930k for the CPU. The two render engines i currently use are powered by GPU, not CPU - so the only time the CPU is really being used in the whole process is when the 'scene' that i am about to render/animate (the textures, geometry etc) is being sent to the GPU's to be stored in vram