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Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core, Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower - System Build - PCPartPicker Neither build had a motherboard so I had to add one, only did it for the Intel because I believe Intel better suits your needs.

You would need a GPU for the AMD system, this not only adds more cost, but raises power consumption as well (especially considering it's not necessary for your workload).
Whether or not you need a CPU cooler is up to you, based on your workload I would personally say yes. Solidworks is a heavy program for the CPU and prolonged heat exposure is one of the major factors in silicon degradation (basically your CPU will die faster if exposed to heat for prolonged periods). Of course it still takes a few years for that to affect anything, but I would rather prolong my hardware as long as possible.
I also have a particular dislike to Intel stock heatsinks, the design is more for aesthetics than performance and it really shows in noise levels and temperatures.

Because AMD and Intel are competitors, they obviously won't share intellectual information and as such it means they use very different designs for their processors.
Intel has a very firm standing in single core performance, which is often referred to as IPC (Instructions per clock), due to this it means Intel doesn't need a high clock speed to achieve the same or better performance as an AMD chip.
AMD on the other hand has very poor IPC and as a result have to clock their processors higher to achieve good performance, AMD is also focusing on multiple cores to help achieve better performance.

To give you an idea of the performance margins:

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As you can see from the image, any single-core programs you use will greatly benefit from an Intel chip.
But other tests like Geekbench 3 Multicore and Cinebench (also multicore) show that Intel's 4 cores are still beating 8 of AMD's, this is again because of AMD's poor IPC performance.

TLDR: I would recommend Intel for several reasons, the more prominent being performance, efficiency and convenience (Intel HD Graphics).

 

That is actually a good point, I forgot Skylake was DDR4, I didn't really care for DDR4 when it came out because memory bandwidth on DDR3 is still really good.
Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core, Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower - System Build - PCPartPicker
Changed the memory to one within Skylake's memory spec, the old one should be fine but over a few years it's not worth the risk.

 

I suspect no-one could actually answer this question for you without prior knowledge as to how well the architecture performs.
However what I can tell you is, an E5606 is really quite old as it was released on the first quarter of 2011 and does not support hyperthreading.

This really is a shot in the dark but I'd be surprised if you could run more than 3.

 

Fairly confident that you could run 2, anything past that I would expect to be a bit laggy if not unusable.

 

Well you should be able to get a rough idea by checking Task Manager.
Chances are it's probably because of the CPU, it is like 5 years old coming up to 6 years.

 

Yeah you have to be careful with VPS stuff simply because they're usually outdated machines that people try to make money off.
I would still double check that your CPU is being properly utilized, if it's not, then you know the CPU is the problem.

Why would a networking card be necessary for botting? Most onboard ethernet solutions are gigabit capable so that's certainly not something I would expect.

 

Yeah Task Manager should help identify whether or not the CPU is your limiting factor.
And yeah I would expect exceptional bandwidth on a VPS, I wouldn't be surprised if the VPS in question had two gigabit ethernet ports on the motherboard.

 

Yeah I wouldn't be concerned about that tbh, gigabit ethernet ports are pretty much standard for every mobo.

 

While I can't be certain as people have claimed performance hits with recent changes, I personally can't see that APU handling 4 bots smoothly.
Athlon X4 880K 4.0GHz Quad-Core - System Build - PCPartPicker United Kingdom
Again I can't be certain but I know that CPU is better than the APU in your build, so it would have a better chance, I'm assuming you have a low budget for this otherwise I would recommend an i5 6600k.

Also changed the motherboard because really you want a board with a heatsink on the power delivery, 10 hours of botting isn't nice on your power delivery when there's no heatsinks to cool them.