ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS C602 EEB Dual LGA2011 7PCI-E16 Dual Intel LAN Workstation Motherboard

Comment:
For scientific computing. This platform is great. However, it is really important to understand the code you will be running to take leverage from multi-core cpu. Povray shows great performance but most applications don't scale so well.AMD's Piledriver really are better suited for hardcore Multi-threaded apps like povray because they cost much lesser and offer relatively the same performance.Good hardware does not make up for buggy software. Just keep that in mind.