Finally! What do you think of this?

[steyau]

Case
COOLERMASTER COSMOS 2 ULTRA TOWER


Processor (CPU)
Intel® Xeon® 14-Core E5-2697v3 (2.6 GHz, 9.60 GT/s, 35M L3 Cache)


Motherboard
ASUS® X99-E WS: SOCKET 2011-V3, DDR4, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s


Memory (RAM)
64GB KINGSTON HYPER-X PREDATOR QUAD-DDR4 3000MHz X.M.P (8 x 8GB)


Graphics Card
PNY QUADRO M6000 12GB GDDR5, 3072 CUDA CORES, (SPECIAL, 1 UNIT!!)


1st Hard Disk
1.2TB INTEL® 750 SERIES 2.5" SSD (up to 2400MB/sR | 1200MB/sW)


2nd Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX SAVAGE SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)


1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW & SOFTWARE


Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£69)


Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i GTX Hydro Cooler w/Akasa Apache Black Ultra Quiet Fans (£109)


Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)


Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Apache Black Quiet Fan (fitted to extract from rear/roof) (£25)


Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)


Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1900 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 600Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD (£49)


USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS


Firewire
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD


Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)


Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)


Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE


Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE


Monitor
AOC I2369VM 23" Widescreen IPS Monitor - 1920 x 1080, DP, HDMI (£125)


Keyboard & Mouse
CM Storm Octane LED Gaming Keyboard and Mouse (£39)


Cable Tidy
3 x PCS 1.5M Zip Cable Tidy - Professional Cable Management (£5)


Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)


Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)


Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days



It's going to be for gaming and intensive 3D rendering. I was going to get another monitor but don't have enough room.

 

[LFFPicard]

Xeon and Quadro are not great at gaming, but will certainly do well for 3D rendering. Depending how intensive the 3D work is you would of been better to go for a i7/980 setup for games and it will still chug through 3D work.

That being said I would love 14core Xeons for my Plex server!

 

[steyau]

Think I'll ditch the 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX SAVAGE SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW). Read a review saying Kingston SSDs actually have speeds of 300MB not the advertised 560MB, the benchmark tests are based on using compressible data. Will choose a different SSD for backup.

Anyone used the 1.2TB INTEL® 750 SERIES 2.5" SSD (up to 2400MB/sR | 1200MB/sW) before?
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/intel-750-pcie-ssd-worst-ssd-in-the-world.780191/

 

[Stephen M]

The Hyper X is fine, I use one. The only Kingstons to have performance issues are the V300s.

 

[Karnor00]

Xeon and Quadro are not great at gaming, but will certainly do well for 3D rendering. Depending how intensive the 3D work is you would of been better to go for a i7/980 setup for games and it will still chug through 3D work.

Following on from this, for gaming the Quadro should be about equivalent to a 780ti for gaming - https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Can-you-game-on-an-NVIDIA-Quadro-GPU-604/

Certainly no slouch, but a bit worse than a 980ti for gaming.