Full Spec Needed - £800 Budget - CAD System (Primary Use)

[richwellings]

Good afternoon,

Full spec needed for a system that will primarily be used for SolidWorks 2015 Design Software. Occasional gaming and streaming use.

To include:

- Motherboard
- Processor (Intel preferred)
- RAM (8gb minimum)
- HDD and SSD (SSD atleast 60gb capacity, HDD atleast 500gb capacity)
- PSU
- Graphics card (combined with MoBo MUST support two HDMI displays/ports)
- Case
- Optical drive
- 24 inch (atleast) full HD monitor (x1)

No other peripherals needed.

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £215.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £167.99
1 x Asus VE247H 24" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £804.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Tried to get you a really good CPU+GFX card.

Display Outputs: 1x DVI + 2x Mini-DP + 1x HDMI

Is that ok? or you can hook up a monitor to the board.


Or you can get a Z97 and I think you can still overclock the CPU 4 ratios higher than the maximum Turbo ratios,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £215.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £167.99
1 x Asus VE247H 24" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2133HC11ADC01) £55.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £827.39 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 

[richwellings]

Can I reduce the CPU and include* Windows 8.1 OS (missed from spec)?

The £800 budget is slightly adjustable.

Thanks for the speedy response.

 

[stulid]

Sure,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £167.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x Asus VE247H 24" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £50.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £819.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[ExRayTed]

Isn't SolidWorks still very single threaded? I'd prefer an overclockable i5 K series over an i7 or vanilla 4690 - unless you can afford to go with the 4ghz Devil's Canyon i7 that is..

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
Total : £183.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[stulid]

https://forum.solidworks.com/servle...e/2-414006-129392/2014-BestCPU-Simulation.PNG
https://forum.solidworks.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-414006-129388/2014-BestCPU-Modeling.PNG
https://forum.solidworks.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-414006-129393/2014-BestCPU-Flow.PNG
https://forum.solidworks.com/servle...ge/2-414006-129394/2014-BestCPU-Rendering.PNG

Depends on whats going on it seems, the i5 is a Haswell based CPU and its being mostly beat by Sandybridge i7 with a 200Mhz clock speed advantage but being Sandybridge vs Haswell there is a significant IPC difference of what?? roughly 15-20%?

 

[richwellings]

I have no experience of overclocking and limited knowledge of software performance, that is why I consistently come to you guys for advice what you say is what I build. I am just a trained chimp who can follow instructions and put computers together.

With that in mind, a processor that will perform to a decent level whilst using SolidWorks 2015 without the need for overclocking is what I require.

 

[stulid]

I know nothing about solidworks either, it maybe that it supports OpenGL acceleration? if so the gfx card will speed things up a lot as they are much more powerful than CPU's.

 

[richwellings]

SolidWorks does support OpenGL acceleration (minimal research)