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[Checkmate212]

I need some advice from whoever is willing to help. Im in the process of starting up a design firm/manufacturing facility.
I have been designing for a couple years now and have been using "SETUP 1" that I built a few months back and we are expanding and need another comp. (SETUP 2)

SETUP 1:
CPU: Intel i7-2600K @ 3.4 (Sandy Bridge)
Motherboard: EVGA P67 (LGA1155)
Memory: GSKill F3-17000 DDR3 4GBX4=16GB Total
Graphics Card: ATI Firepro V5800 (FireGL) (1GB)
Storage: 2x120GB SSD in Raid 0/2x500GB in Raid 1
Power Supply: Rosewill 750W
Windows 7
Solidworks 2013
(This CPU is liquid cooled)

Here is where I need someone's expertise. Setup 2A is what I have been looking at with the plan to take a few of these components from this setup and
placing them in SETUP 1 and moving to setup 2B when the time comes.

SETUP 2A:
CPU: Single Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz
Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-X
Memory: Undecided - Open to suggestions
Graphics Card: ATI Firepro V5800 (FireGL) (1GB) <--Will go to SETUP 1
Storage: Undecided - SSD in RAID 0 prefered
Power Supply: Undecided

SETUP 2B:
CPU: Dual Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz
Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-X
Memory: Undecided - Open to suggestions
Graphics Card: ATI FirePro W9000 6GB
Storage: Undecided - SSD in RAID 0 prefered
Power Supply: Undecided

I am open to any suggestions and critiques to any setups. Obviously Solidworks is the main program running on all setups. All types of modeling/rendering.
Some jobs are huge full refinery plants (oil and gas) others jobs can fit in the palm of your hand. Here are my questions that I have:

Can this motherboard run the stated CPU? (Only setups with this board I've found are using the XEONS)
Can this motherboard run with just one CPU until I get a second?
Are there any other problems I am not seeing?

Thanks to everyone in advance for taking time to look and this and providing help!

 

[excella1221]

The motherboard's socket type matches the 3930K, but it says under CPU type that it's only for Xeon processors. Not to mention, it looks really overpriced.
I personally won't risk it, and I don't really recommend EVGA motherboards either.

I suggest any of the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131800&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128531&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157285&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130626&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

I also won't recommend doing any RAID 0 on an SSD, this article would explain it quite thoroughly.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/kigston-hyperx-ssd-raid0_7.html#sect0

When choosing an SSD, make sure to get the non-SandForce controllers since they have mostly efficiency issues with incompressible data.

 

[Checkmate212]

excella - Thanks for you advice...do you have any recommendations that have a dual socket? One thing I would like to be able to do (when needed) is to dedicate a CPU to rendering while still use the other CPU to model. Going by Solidworks performance testing numbers, the dual CPU setup is killing and single overclocked CPU (stable OC obviously).

 

[excella1221]

Oh, you can't run dual i7's.
The only Intel CPUs that can do that would be the Xeon series.

 

[james_44]

The motherboard's socket type matches the 3930K, but it says under CPU type that it's only for Xeon processors. Not to mention, it looks really overpriced.
I personally won't risk it, and I don't really recommend EVGA motherboards either.

I suggest any of the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131800&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128531&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157285&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130626&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

I also won't recommend doing any RAID 0 on an SSD, this article would explain it quite thoroughly.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/kigston-hyperx-ssd-raid0_7.html#sect0

When choosing an SSD, make sure to get the non-SandForce controllers since they have mostly efficiency issues with incompressible data.

No idea why you are saying this. I use intel 520 and in my daily regular use i dont see any problems with In compressible data. And i use regular movies and JpeG images

 

[manofchalk]

^ Please dont start this again
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/367254-31-sandforce-based-ssds
You really do only seem to pop up in threads where Sandforce is criticized.

I would imagine on a rig like this with such critical data, you don't want anything running in RAID0, for fear of a drive failing and knocking out a ton of data. If you want the speed, then I would be looking toward RAID10 options. That will afford you reliability as well, if doubling the cost of storage.
Besides, the internals of an SSD is very much like RAID0 anyway. As you get larger capacities, its is effectively like two smaller drives in RAID0 inside the one drive. Better off with a higher capacity drive.

As for PSU, I imagine a 650W unit would be fine. Though admittedly I am not sure on the power consumption of workstation cards, but I cant imagine it being ridiculously high.

 

[excella1221]

^ Please dont start this again
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/367254-31-sandforce-based-ssds
You really do only seem to pop up in threads where Sandforce is criticized.

Oh, my. o_o
He sounds like a troll in disguise. :lol:

 

[james_44]

^ Please dont start this again
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/367254-31-sandforce-based-ssds
You really do only seem to pop up in threads where Sandforce is criticized.

I would imagine on a rig like this with such critical data, you don't want anything running in RAID0, for fear of a drive failing and knocking out a ton of data. If you want the speed, then I would be looking toward RAID10 options. That will afford you reliability as well, if doubling the cost of storage.
Besides, the internals of an SSD is very much like RAID0 anyway. As you get larger capacities, its is effectively like two smaller drives in RAID0 inside the one drive. Better off with a higher capacity drive.

As for PSU, I imagine a 650W unit would be fine. Though admittedly I am not sure on the power consumption of workstation cards, but I cant imagine it being ridiculously high.

Looks like Excella1221, Manof chalk and GUNIT all share same ip's - and call everybody else trolls - LOL - They look like they belong to "Give wrong advice brotherhood" and they turn up everywhere there is a system build or a hardware build discussion - Do you guys even own a computer

 

[james_44]

Oh, my. o_o
He sounds like a troll in disguise. :lol:

Looks like Excella1221, Manof chalk and GUNIT all share same ip's - and call everybody else trolls - LOL - They look like they belong to "Give wrong advice brotherhood" and they turn up everywhere there is a system build or a hardware build discussion - Do you guys even own a computer

 

[excella1221]

Looks like james_44 is butthurt when we don't suggest SandForce drives like his beloved Intel 520.

Also, you're funny, I'm pretty sure manofchalk is in Australia, I'm in Asia, and I don't really know where g-unit is. You can contact one of the mods to confirm that for you if you want, hun. 🙂

Please escort your Intel/Sandforce fanboy self out of this thread and let the people who obviously know more handle the matter at hand.

Also, if you bothered to actually check my profile, you would know I don't actually fit in a "brotherhood". Feel free to fail more.

and they turn up everywhere there is a system build or a hardware build discussion - Do you guys even own a computer

I find it slightly ironic to receive this from someone who only pops up on threads where SandForce is criticized. :lol:

 

[manofchalk]

Do you guys even own a computer

I actually do, you can see the specs in literally every post I have made. Could even link to a build thread I made with pictures of it, but cant be bothered since im on a tablet right now and would take ages.
Still under under the imprssion that we all malicously spread mis-information are you?