AMD 8370 or Xeon 1230 v3

[kenmo]

Currently I have an I5-2500K (socket 1155) with 16 mbs of memory, Windows 7 64 bit which I mostly use for 3D rendering, 3D modeling (Vue Complete, Hexagon3D, Silo3D, 3DCoat), photo editing via Photoshop & Lightroom. I also do some digital painting using ArtRage 4.5 & Corel Painter Essentials 5.

I also realize that either of the upgrades below will necessitate a mother board purchase as the Xeons are socket 1150 and the AMD AM3+. I ruled out the AMD FX-9xxx series due to 225 watt requirements.

I am doing this upgrade really do to the lengthy times it takes to render 3D scenes via Vue Complete. Presently I do my rendering on the I5-2500K and also have a AMD 8320 set up as a render node. So when I render a scene I use both the I5 & 8320.

The I5-2500K mobo & memory will not be wasted after the upgrade as an older AMD X3-710 computer will inherit the I5 and thus become one more render node.

According to E-onsoftware (publishers of Vue 3D) Vue Complete can use a maximum of 8 cores per render node.

Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 Haswell -- $279
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116906

Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 Haswell -- $309
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117316

AMD FX-8370 -- $229
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113374

Thoughts?

Cheers

Ken

Some of my 3D work...

[redwudz]

I've been very happy with my AMD 8350. And the price was right.
I would recommend liquid cooling with the 8370, or with any of the newer high performance multi-core processors.
My 8350 runs about 40C under full load on all cores with a Corsair H50 Hydro CPU cooler. And it's very quiet. There are newer liquid coolers now that perform even better.

And nice 3D renderings.

[sophisticles]

The artwork is really good, you have some talent there.

WRT Xeons, these are only used if a) you need support for ECC Ram, b) you need more than one processor or c) both.

The Xeons you linked to only support single socket use so the only reason to choose one is for the ECC support but ECC is only meant for mission critical environments, like a hospital and it tends to be slower than non-ECC Ram.

Furthermore, Xeons, while they may share the same socket 1150 as desktop Haswells will not work with the same chipsets, so you need a workstation class board, which costs more than a regular board.

For your use patterns you may want to go with a Haswell-E hexacore, specifically the 5820k.

[deadmeow]

The 2500k you have now is probably better than an 8370. The Xeon looks like it will be an upgrade, but is it worth the money? Here are a couple of benches to look at.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8227/devils-canyon-review-intel-core-i7-4790k-and-i5-4690k/3
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E3-1230-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2500K

Here is a list of 1150 processors from pcpartpicker
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/cpu/#k=24&C=4,14&sort=d1&qq=1
You can probably get something a little faster than that Xeon in a similar price range.

[kenmo]

But it would also add one more render node to my rendering process....