I'm an engineering student who likes to play video games, but also wants to be able to use my computer for things like CAD and possibly machine learning purposes. I only have two GTX 1080ti's so I want to make it one computer. Theoretically I could make two computers and maybe that's what I should do, but if anybody knows a lot about this then some advice would be appreciated
I was doing some research and it seemed like ECC memory was important with calculations that could take days to finish. it's my understanding that in order to utilize the error correction feature I would need a xeon CPU. I also like to play video games, so the higher end xeon CPU's with high core counts would not be good for me. So this leaves me looking at the lower end xeons that are very similar to the current core 17/i5 CPU's.
I'm also not sure if any gaming/consumer grade motherboards fully support xeon, so advice on distinguishing xeon compatibility is needed.
My research on GPU's has basically determined that low level quadro cards are better for CAD that my GTX 1080ti's, but on some engineering forums I found a lot of people using GTX 1080ti's for machine learning and other processing(even though the GTX 1080ti does not have ECC memory) The quadro cards I think use ECC memory, but I already own two GTX 1080ti's for gaming, so I don't really want to pay for one just yet.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice that you have to offer
I was doing some research and it seemed like ECC memory was important with calculations that could take days to finish. it's my understanding that in order to utilize the error correction feature I would need a xeon CPU. I also like to play video games, so the higher end xeon CPU's with high core counts would not be good for me. So this leaves me looking at the lower end xeons that are very similar to the current core 17/i5 CPU's.
I'm also not sure if any gaming/consumer grade motherboards fully support xeon, so advice on distinguishing xeon compatibility is needed.
My research on GPU's has basically determined that low level quadro cards are better for CAD that my GTX 1080ti's, but on some engineering forums I found a lot of people using GTX 1080ti's for machine learning and other processing(even though the GTX 1080ti does not have ECC memory) The quadro cards I think use ECC memory, but I already own two GTX 1080ti's for gaming, so I don't really want to pay for one just yet.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice that you have to offer