Help with a build for CAD

OLDPHART said:
Hi Doomedspeed, had a chat with my son and he say's the rendering does no take that long as its only Jewellery often quite small.

But he says the PC that they are using falls over now and a gain when rendering, etc.

LoL, l won't tell you what they have been using, l built it nearly 4 years ago for gaming and general use say no more.

So your 1st Spec might be the thing, would it be worth waiting for the Haswell 4790k?

Again thanks,
Oldphart.:)
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Well that's fine then, even a 4670k (or newer equivalent) would deal with that fine.

The 4770k has its advantages though and as its still in budget, why not.

I think you can drop the GPU down aswell, may be the 750 or 750ti.

You're looking for something very similar to the spec I did for benji. :)

Ethermaster said:
My 2p ....

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620v2 2.10GHz 6-Core with Hyperthreading & Turbo (Socket 2011) - Retail £319.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX18C10AT3K4/32X) £249.95
1 x Asus P9X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £184.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 750Ti OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N750Ti-2GD5/OC) £101.99
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
1 x Intel 320 Series 120GB Internal SSD SATA 3GB/s 2.5" 7mm (SSDSA2BW120G3) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £55.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £1,167.83 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Awesome but wildly Over the top I think. :)
 
I know :) but if your looking to do professional tasks on a PC then you will want the increase upgradable RAM (buy another 32Gb kit and have 64GB) as well as the raw horsepower from a Xeon, but I would be looking a Quarro GPU tho
 
Yeah for CAD work I would be looking at a professional card such as one from the AMD FirePro series. V4900 would be a good shout but most of the FirePro cards seem to be out of stock at OCUK.
 
Ethermaster said:
I know :) but if your looking to do professional tasks on a PC then you will want the increase upgradable RAM (buy another 32Gb kit and have 64GB) as well as the raw horsepower from a Xeon, but I would be looking a Quarro GPU tho
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From the information they are giving, they are very low level task (in the grand scheme of thing) and paying premium prices of OTT products seems a little pointless.

The Xeons don't have the raw 'single threaded' horse power modeling requires. It has the multi-threaded power for Rendering and Editing (simulations) at a medium to high-end level but too much for general modeling and quite low end rendering/editing.

Unless you spend £400-£500 on a Quadro GPU you won't get any advantage over a med-high end Gaming GPU.

For someone doing 24hour renders and countless simulations/edits your rig is spot on, but for the requirements they stated I think my specs are better. :)
 
Oppppssss I really should have read the whole thread before I posted a spec, I didn't realize that they were after modelling workloads I just saw CAD and went for it ..... a fail for Ethermaster there I think, will have to get back into the speccing again :p
 
No problem Dacia and YES I'm back !!! :p but I was just having a think on your first build... would you need a HDD as this is a professional use workstation would you not think the the end would use mass storage on the network so maybe some room for a much bigger SSD?
 
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