network/solidworks PC BUILD

[quantum85]

Hello im after building a PC for work to host our website and emails ect, id also be running solidworks 2014 on it on a daily basis no mouse screen or keyboard needed.

Could any of you kind people give me some specs you recomend to fulfil this role.Looking at around £800 mark, many thanks in advance Quantum85

 

[ExRayTed]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro K620 Low Profile Graphics Card - 2GB GDDR3 - 384 CUDA Core £158.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX18C10BRK2/16-OC) £129.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EZRX) HDD £62.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
1 x Raijintek Rhea Heatpipe CPU Cooler - PWM - 92mm £12.95
Total : £793.73 (includes shipping : £17.85).



GPU is out of stock but you could source elsewhere.

 

[Doomedspeed]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 750 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N750-1GD5/OC) £77.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £56.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £715.78 (includes shipping : £17.85).



The card Ted selected is a CAD card but they are very over priced.

The GTX 750 offers double the amount of CUDA cores with the same memory interface and bandwidth of the professional card,and its £100 cheaper.

It will be a little noiser and i uses a little(15W) more power but its a great card foryour uses.

 

[LordSplodge]

Hello im after building a PC for work to host our website and emails ect, id also be running solidworks 2014 on it on a daily basis no mouse screen or keyboard needed.

Get a server from one of the big guys. Unless your not bothered if this PC goes wrong (and if you are it can't be being used for important business work) because a four hour on site fix can often be priceless...

 

[ExRayTed]

The card Ted selected is a CAD card but they are very over priced.

The GTX 750 offers double the amount of CUDA cores with the same memory interface and bandwidth of the professional card,and its £100 cheaper.

It will be a little noiser and i uses a little(15W) more power but its a great card foryour uses.

You're right, they are overpriced piles of rip-off

The problem isn't the hardware - the problem is the fact that in order to sell these workstation cards both Nvidia and AMD cripple their gaming card drivers, specifically double precision floating point operations (something Solidworks and a lot of other CAD programs depend on).

The sad fact is the workstation card will be quicker in Solidworks, but will it be £100 quicker? Not sure.

You're actually paying the extra for optimised drivers. Nawty Nvidia/AMD..

 

[Doomedspeed]

Very true, something i forgot...

That is why (completely un-relaed to this budget) the TITAN Black is so interesting, as its got the double precision point optimised.. Making it a stop gap to the likes of the Quadro 2000, for around 1/3 of the price.

If i recall my use of solidworks, basic modelling and a few simulations DPFP doesn't play a huge factor. Only when you start to animate/simulate and stress a lot of components and model to extremes does it start to add up.

So, is it worth £100? If you use solidworks to the edges of it's abilities, Yes. If, like me, you use about 3% of its functionally, No.

(By the way, That use wasn't just personal use, it was in an engineering firm, soit just shows even a company can under-use software. )

 

[quantum85]

thanks for the replies guys, so you would suggest buying a dedicated server from overclockers? And id build a sepperate computer for running solidworks? Many thanks