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Originally Posted by Emcha_audio
Guys, price notwithstanding, which would you go with and why
i7 5699x or E5-2699 V3?
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I guess you mean the 5960x?
Personally I'd say the E5-2699v3 is overkill for most users who are looking for a DAW rig. 18 cores / 36 threads sure sounds nice, but I doubt there are many people who can put that kind of power to good use.
You say "notwithstanding price" - well, then I'd probably go with the Xeon, as for use with PT the number of cores/threads beats the higher clock speed, so the Xeon will perform clearly vastly better than the i7.
But as the Xeon is about 4x more expensive than the i7, I'd definitely get the latter.
I'm still using the 3930K in my main rig and I hardly ever max that one out (and I am working with fairly large sessions with lots of native plugins).