Building a new computer.

[JasonPensack]

I'm building a new rig for running Pro/NC and I'm wondering if anyone has any insight. I'm thinking Quadro M4000 for a graphics card, 32gb of 2400 MHz ram, And of course a solid state drive. The big question is processor. Should I go with a high speed Core i7 or a Xeon that may have a little lower speed but a much larger cache? I know speed has always been what I've heard for Pro since it only runs on one core but I'm wondering what advantages a larger cache will give me, if any. Anyone have any suggestions?

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[SteveLucas]

Jason,

Since no one is responding to you I just got in November a new Dell Precision workstation 5810 configured at about what you have listed with Xeon1650(6 core)3.5 Ghz processors 32 Gb ram and a Quadro K4200 video card and a 512 Gb solid state drive. Quite happy with the performance after about 6 moths of service.

Steve

[JasonPensack]

Thanks for the reply Steve...

Your Xeon processor is the one I would select if I went Xeon. I think I am going to go with the i7-5930K (6-core 3.5 GHz 15MB L3 Cache) simply because most of the motherboards I am looking at only reference the i7 as a supported processor. The socket is the same so I'm sure that it would work but I don't want to take that chance. I'm going with similar specs to yours so thanks for confirming that it should work well for me.