not sure the CPU to get.

[Joshua Cutillo]

so my current build plan is http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hCtkK8 although i may switch to one of the AMD cards once they are put on the market, if i don't switch to an AMD card ill get a hybrid GTX980TI and hook it up into the same loop closed as the cpu with the swift tech so it will have dual RADS. but I'm not sure if i should go with the I7-5920k or not, ill be doing a lot of multitasking and a fair amount of rendering. so any suggestions and build changes i can make please let me know. this is my first build and its going to be my computer for college.

 

[snowctrl]

It depends on what sort of rendering you're doing, but you can't go far wrong with the 5820K (unless you're going multi-GPU, in which case you might need more PCI lanes)

 

[trampus123]

the 5820k is a nice cpu but if you plan to run more than one gpu then get the 5930k or the 5960k they have more pcie lanes.
5820k has 28 lanes the 5930k and 5960k has 40 lanes.
all three chips are good I have the 5820k on a rampage MB with full loop and I can run a 4.0gz and stay under 40c.

 

[Neutr1n0]

With 28 lanes you can go up to 3-way SLI at x8/x8/x8 without issue. There is next to 0 performance gain at x16 compared to x8. Only issue with tri-SLI on 5820k could be when you need pcie lanes for other pcie cards (like sound card or USB 3.1 card) or M2. Therefore the premium for 5930k over 5820k is really not worth it IMO.

5820k is an excellent choise! Mine OCs like a champ and can easily do 4.5G at under 1.250v.

 

[Joshua Cutillo]

It depends on what sort of rendering you're doing, but you can't go far wrong with the 5820K (unless you're going multi-GPU, in which case you might need more PCI lanes)

for now i plan to just use a single GPU, but might add another in a year or so, maybe not if i can get the right powerhouse of a card

 

[snowctrl]

It depends on what sort of rendering you're doing, but you can't go far wrong with the 5820K (unless you're going multi-GPU, in which case you might need more PCI lanes)

for now i plan to just use a single GPU, but might add another in a year or so, maybe not if i can get the right powerhouse of a card

Single GPU solutions tend to be simpler in use

More specifically, if you're looking to use GPU acceleration in productivity software or rendering, be careful to check that software will make use of more than a single card

 

[Cyier]

Joshua,
It depends on the rendering software you plan on using. Can you provide us the software you plan on using? For example rending with Modo uses CPU not GPU. If you use Lumion it uses a single GPU and not much CPU. The company I work for we use both Modo and Lumion. Our rendering machines are using: the 5930k and a single 980. We went with the 5930k because of the extra 20 PCI-E lanes since we are using a M.2 hard drive which uses some of those PCI-E lanes. The motherboard we are using is the ASUS X99-E WS. I would not recommend AMD products for rendering since most rendering software seems to lean toward Nvidia and Intel chips for better efficiency.