Building Resolve workstation - Should I wait?

[Scott Pultz]

I want to build a new Resolve workstation by the end of the year rather than waiting until say the middle of 2016. I know that new video cards worth waiting for (due to DP1.3) will be coming but those can be dropped in at anytime.

So my question is, should I build a machine now or wait 6-12 months? If I wait, what am I waiting for exactly? Are the Broadwell/Skylark chips going to offer nice advantages?

I'm deciding between an overlocked 8-core i7 or two 10-Core XEON chips running at 3.1ghz each. The i7 is very appealing from a price standpoint!

 

[Eric Bowen]

I dont see how Broadwell E will be released 2015. If so that would be faster than Intel's normal timeline. Only Desktop or Mobile will move to Skylake anytime in the next year or so if even then. The Haswell E will be the platform for Workstation and Server 2015. The 10 Core Xeon would give the advantage for realtime playback. The 8 core for render. That would be your deciding factor between the 2.

 

[L. Langer]

Skylake brings DDR4 and PCIe 4.0 and Nvidia's Pascal GPU (stacked memory brings big bandwidth improvements) will be coming around the same time too.