Xeon 1650 v4 - Q Good for CAD, Sketchup and Overnight Rendering?

[Bikerchris]

Hello all,

First post on this site, strange this is that I can't see a description of the forum, although it's clear what's been spoken about!

So I Use AutoCAD full time, Sketchup 1/4 time and I'm well in need of an upgrade as it's been around 4 years since the last one (details at the bottom FYI).

I've got no intention to OC as this has to be a reliable workstation rig, it'll also be active 24 hours a day as I will use it to render multiple visual stills and movies over night. Because of this I thought the Xeon 1650 v4 would be a good move, mainly for the industrial strength but also because this model has Turbo up to 4GHz, which will be useful for CAD and single threaded processes.

Am I making the right decision then? Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Gman1979]

That's a solid choice as far as # of cores and their clock speed. I really don't think you'd be disappointed.

 

[Bikerchris]

That's a solid choice as far as # of cores and their clock speed. I really don't think you'd be disappointed.

Thanks for that Gman. It would have been nice to either have a few more cores, or get a dual core machine for properly knocking those renders out, but I've not found a high clock speed CPU that can also dual CPU onto a motherboard. Mind you, that could have been limited by price more than anything!

Thanks though, much appreciated.

 

[Gman1979]

Thanks for that Gman. It would have been nice to either have a few more cores, or get a dual core machine for properly knocking those renders out, but I've not found a high clock speed CPU that can also dual CPU onto a motherboard. Mind you, that could have been limited by price more than anything!

Thanks though, much appreciated.

I know the feeling. Many times I have wished Intel would have just released a line of Xeons with more cores and higher clocks with an enthusiast level TDP increase. More cores can be fun but not if single threaded stuff has to suffer

 

[Bikerchris]

I know the feeling. Many times I have wished Intel would have just released a line of Xeons with more cores and higher clocks with an enthusiast level TDP increase. More cores can be fun but not if single threaded stuff has to suffer

Exactly, so far as I know, the programmes I use are mostly single threaded...I guess in a perfect world we would have a dual CPU machine, with one CPU with 4+GHz dual core +HT and the other could be a 12 core 2GHz or something similar. I'd probably have something like that!