Putting together a new PC for 3D rendering, how did I do?

[Greyson3D]

This is what I have so far:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 2.2GHz 10-Core Processor ($701.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($143.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Core V51 ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.98 @ Newegg)
Other: Nvidia GTX​ 1070 ($380.00)
Total: $1621.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-27 07:24 EDT-0400

My budget was $2000 so I ended up pretty well under that. I initially had selected a Xeon E5-2640 V4 but after comparing with the 2630 the only difference I could find was an extra 0.2GHz, which I'm not sure is worth the extra $300.

I'm fairly confident in my choices but I wanted to run it by here first to make sure I didn't overlook anything.

 

[Icaraeus]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 2.2GHz 10-Core Processor ($649.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($143.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Core V51 ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic EVO Edition 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Other: Nvidia GTX​ 1070 ($380.00)
Total: $1642.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-27 08:51 EDT-0400

About the RAM, I really don't think you need 64GiB system RAM -- you should only need 32GiB. Seems like a waste TBH to have 64GiB

 

[Greyson3D]

About the RAM, I really don't think you need 64GiB system RAM -- you should only need 32GiB. Seems like a waste TBH to have 64GiB

Yeah I wasn't too sure about that. I had picked 32GB initially but after I found the cheaper CPU I decided to spring for 64GB since it isn't too much more. I render in 4K and do some pretty RAM-intensive stuff involving millions of polies, simulations, etc. I regularly max out the 16GB I have now and occasionally have to find work-arounds due to crashes so I didn't know if 32 would be enough. I do know ZBrush scales pretty linearly with RAM when it comes to the amount of detail you can put into your models. You're right though in that I have no idea if 64 is overkill vs 32 since I have no baseline for what I actually would need. I just wanted to be sure I'm set for whatever I plan on doing in the next 5 years or so.