I know there are many questions on building a good editing system here, this is more specific. I have built many systems including the current one I am using but my "main job" is engineering and I have been toying with the idea of an editing-only system.
Obviously I want the best bang for my buck. I know the i7 is great and the 6-core (extreme) even better, BUT what if I built an AMD Opteron based box? I am looking at a motherboard that has 2 proc sockets and AMD has an 8-core Opteron for $305/ea. That would put 16-cores in the box and there are 16 DDR3 memory slots. 2GB DDR3 DIMMs can be had for $50 each so not to hard to put in 32GB.
Anyone with any experience with Opteron versus i7? Yes I know the Opteron is a 'server' cpu but clock cycles should be clock cycles for rendering. And I would think 16-cores trumps 6 even when it's against the Intel i7 6 cores.
