I am working on 3ds max and and i am currently building a new workstation . Rendering in corona(cpu renderer) .
Well in the office we already have a single-Xeon ES 2690 v3 and we are not satisfied at all, material editor is slow as hell and everytjong runs alow Expect render times which are good. According to benchmarks render times between i7 6900 and dual xeon 2670 are not even close(2670 wins easily) . Here comes the "But" : If i can design better and handle bigger scenes like 15m polygons+ (which i cant do with the 2690) I will win the render times in those things and also I xouls jump on gpu renderers later on.
The rest bulding will be:
Mobo:asus strix x99(i7) or the asus for the duel xeons.
Ram:4x8 corsair 2400 ghz
Gpu:1070 asus turbo(since we wanna build a fpu station later too)
Psu:corsair 850cs
Cooling: corsair h110i v2
Ssd:samsung 850 pro evo 256 gb
Thanks for the help anyway