Hardware for CAD?

almighty15

almighty15

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I've been asked by my parents to build a PC for my brother so he can start to learn CAD, I know what CAD is but have no experience with it or the software so in terms of requirements I don't have a dicky bird.

What kind of system is required for CAD?

Pure CPU grunt?
Loads of RAM?
HDD a speed?
Is the software GPU accelerated?

Budget is not that high but I'll shop around.
 
My brother is 14 guys but wants to be a design engineer, I was thinking of getting an AMD FX6000 or FX8000 series CPU a as I would have the thought the software would be quite well threaded, apparently not from the comments above.

So the gist of it then is an Intel Quad core? And at least 8Gb of RAM?

Can get my hands on a cheap i3 Clarkedale CPU so that might be a good base?
 
Been messing around all night and built this for him ( I've decided it will double up as a 'light' gaming PC too as it only has to manage rendering at 1080p )

AMD FX6300
8Gb Corsair 1600Mhz RAM
MSI 7950 Twin Frozr Boost Edition
EVGA 600w PSU
Bitfenix Case
Corsair H80
1Tb HDD

Cost £445 so can't complain as everything is brand new apart form the 7950.

I might of been better off with an Intel CPU in terms of performance and I was looking at getting an i7 920 as they sell for ~£40 these days but the x58 boards are very expensive so settled on the FX6300, not the best option for pure performance but cost effective and will still get the job done.
 
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