Help needed with a new CAD/ ENGINEERING setup

jet1990

jet1990

jet1990

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Hi all I'm new to this forum

I'm currently employed as a design engineer a well as owning my own design business, I specialise in graphic design and 3D modelling. Long story short I need a new set up at home as up until now I've used an ancient laptop with a second screen.

My works PC is a dell T1600 with an nvidia quadro 2000 and km really happy with the performance of the system overall.

Can anyone recommend me prebuilt setup or suggest which parts to use. I wish the specs to be:

A ssd for my operating software to run off.
At least 1tb of storage on second hard drive
A graphics card that can handle 3d modelling AMD rendering
Screens aren't an issue they've already been purchased.
Windows 7
Minimum of 16gb of ram will do I think?
Processor and motherboard? Not too sure
Fan and power supply? Again not too sure.

My budget is around £1000 as I intend this system to last me a long time with the capabilities of upgrading in the future.

Thanks in advance
 
Bump.....

Im looking to purchase the parts ASAP. I can stretch my budget to around 1200-1300 but i need 100 set aside of my second monitor!
 
It may be worth noting that most of my 3D modelling takes place on my work computer, this home computer will be used mostly for graphic design as well as some small scale modelling and rendering. I plan on picking up adobe after effects and Zbrush in the near future so i don't know if that should effect the graphics card i need to buy.
 
Ahhhh I went out and bought the system 2 nights ago! I wish i would have waited a day lol

I bought:
1x Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Socket 1155 Quad Core (off the top of my head im 80% this is the right i7 i bought)
1x GTX 760 Jetstream 4GB GPU
1x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Socket 1150 Motherboard
1x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x 8gb) DDR3 2400MHz
1x Corsair CS750M 750W Power Supply
1x Crucial MX100 2.5" 512GB SATA III SSD
1x Seagate 7200.14 2TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive
1x Corsair Carbide SPEC-03 Gaming Black Midi Tower
1x DVD RW drive


Im not sure how good this build is but it was my first ever pc build and it went quite well although the network adapter isn't being recognised by any ports on the motherboard ( tried to return it and they tested it on theirs and it was working fine so im a little confused at the moment lol )

Thanks for your input, I will be upgrading certain components in the future.
 
I have just double checked and it was a 4770 (PHEW!) i got all the parts including a wireless keyboard, mouse and network card for just under £1050.
 
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