After Effects CC only - Purchasing a new system for....

Getting ready to purchase a new system for After Effects CC. I create 3D effects, video effects and many animation effects small scale for website development and YouTube. I have been considering a system with Xeon E5-2697 V3 processor (14 cores, 3 GHz Clock), 16 GB RAM, 1T SR-HD, and of course a NVIDIA GTX-GPU Cuda video card. Would this pass the system requirements for After Effects CC? Any other recommendations? I do not want to experience the slow downs that I am currently having with my i7 intel system.
Thank you
Alexandra Parks

....Eric may have the most expert advice on this topic....he builds machines at ADK for what you are talking about.
You may want to ask him about Haswell E...AE requires CPU clock speed, many cores, and large system memory. Also, a fast, separate drive for the " global performance cache" is beneficial. The GPU use is less than what is used in Premiere ....a solid GeForce card like the NVidia 970 may suffice. Eric can advise

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