workstation recommendations for houdini

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I have 10K … thoughts?
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i think it kind of depends on what you want to do with it. I am a generalist and the system I would build:

- supermicro workstation motherboard
- 2x xeon 2660 v3
- 128gb ram
- nvidia titan or gtx 980. i would go with the 980 and save up some money here.
- 2x 500gb ssd or 1x 1tb.. depending if you want to install linux beside windows i would seperate them on 2 drives.
- few sata drives for storage

to be honest. if possible i would wait for the new processors.

see here: http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Intel-Skylake.jpg [cdn.wccftech.com]
seems like it will still take a while for them to release.

here you can see the best multi cpu performance https://www.cpubenchmark.net/multi_cpu.html [cpubenchmark.net]

hope it helps.
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Thanks!

I will be doing mostly simulation … RBD and Flip stuff.

The new processors … Do we have any idea when they will be released ??

Thanks again ….
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August 2015 is the last date i heard. Not sure how much of an upgrade they will be. there is not much information atm.

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