Capable CAD desktop for £400-£500

Idleman · 15 Aug 2013 at 15:27

Potty27 said:
Guess most of what I have read about CAD and AMD has focused too heavily on the rendering.

By the way Doom, do you happen to have any links on info about overclocking the i5-4430? Most of what I've seen says you can hardly OC them at all.

You can increase the BCLK.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Aug 2013 at 15:29

This then:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Blue 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX16C9K2/16X) £101.99
1 x Gigabyte H87-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £80.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £469.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Run it like that for a while until he actually needs the GPU power and then perhaps try my GTX 560 to see if that has enough ooomph to support what he's doing.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Aug 2013 at 15:30

Potty27 said:
Guess most of what I have read about CAD and AMD has focused too heavily on the rendering.

By the way Doom, do you happen to have any links on info about overclocking the i5-4430? Most of what I've seen says you can hardly OC them at all.

A quick google suggests you can squeeze another 400MHz out of them.

Doomedspeed · 15 Aug 2013 at 15:48

puma luke said:
A quick google suggests you can squeeze another 400MHz out of them.

Turbo boost gets you to 3.2 atleast, so a little bit extra.

Id go with your above spec.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Aug 2013 at 15:53

Doomedspeed said:
Turbo boost gets you to 3.2 atleast, so a little bit extra.

Id go with your above spec.

Sweet, It will wipe the floor with mine though so I'm gonna have to get buying now

Potty27 · 15 Aug 2013 at 16:04

Idleman said:
You can increase the BCLK.

I read that becomes unstable very quickly, after 5% or so?

puma luke said:
A quick google suggests you can squeeze another 400MHz out of them.

Are you sure that's Haswell and not IB?

Doomedspeed said:
Turbo boost gets you to 3.2 atleast, so a little bit extra.

Turbo is effectively stock speed though mate and quite a low turbo compared to some of the other i5's.

Potty27 · 15 Aug 2013 at 16:06

I'm not knocking it by the way, just curious what people have managed to get the i5-4430 running at stable.

Zuban · 15 Aug 2013 at 16:09

Potty27 said:
Guess most of what I have read about CAD and AMD has focused too heavily on the rendering.

they do, often either because its people talking about it that dont actually do 3d or cad work, and so arent aware thats its not all just the rendering process, and secondly because when you isolate it down to purely that function then the amd's make sense so if you want to spin it that way you can but its not a true picture, taking everything into account its clear that the overall experience is better on the intels.

Idleman · 15 Aug 2013 at 16:12

Potty27 said:
I read that becomes unstable very quickly, after 5% or so?

So you increase it gradually and stress test it each time. There is a limit as to how far you can go.

Potty27 · 15 Aug 2013 at 16:14

Zuban said:
they do, often either because its people talking about it that dont actually do 3d or cad work, and so arent aware thats its not all just the rendering process, and secondly because when you isolate it down to purely that function then the amd's make sense so if you want to spin it that way you can but its not a true picture, taking everything into account its clear that the overall experience is better on the intels.

Happy to admit I'm wrong