New build for CAD work

spoony77

spoony77

spoony77

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Hi people,
I need a new build primarily for CAD with a budget of £1500 max.
Is this do-able if it includes a monitor and keyboard too?
Yours hopefully.
Cheers
 
I came up with this you will need to acquire a workstation gpu as overclockers dont have any in stock.

5800x 8 core or 3900x 12 core for same price but could swap for 5900x 12 core for £130 more . 2 x 1tb m2 drives for fast data transfer between drives motherboard with wifi and 32gb of ram.

There are plenty of configarations that may be better as Im not the best at workstation buids hopefully others will help out too.

B CODE My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,216.87 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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My go below. Put the p2200 in as a placeholder, but looks like the rtx a2000 would be the one to go for in this price bracket (available elsewhere for about £50 less).

Some sources seemed to say solidworks performs marginally better with Intel than amd. Not sure if that's true or not, but went Intel anyway.

A fast and durable 500gb ssd for booting from and working on projects, a 2tb hdd for storing stuff not in use.

I went for that mouse as I recently bought one and v happy with it - much more comfortable to use than my previous one, and a cheap keyboard placeholder, could be replaced by whatever's available at a reasonable price. Keyboard and mouse can be a bit of a personal choice though, with different people finding different things comfortable.

Decent IPS monitor should be good for this purpose.

Re operating system, download Windows 10 Pro from Microsoft to a USB stick then install on your pc, then buy a key from one of the many online stores that do them for cheap.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,479.79 (includes shipping: £0.00)


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Edit: add in a cheap pair of speakers just so you can hear Windows noises etc, as that monitor doesn't have any built in:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £15.01 (includes shipping: £6.02)

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Edit 2: I think what I read about Intel performing better with solidworks was probably not true, so change cpu, motherboard, and cooler to these:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £440.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Puts the price up a little bit, but a couple of the components can be had cheaper elsewhere, and the whole build should still come in under budget.
 
Logitech K120 USB Keyboard (920-002524)
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spoony77 said:
Solidworks, thanks for taking the time to help.
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From what I've read - I don't use it myself - Solidworks itself is largely single-threaded but Solidworks Visualise likes a quad core CPU. So if you want your single core to go as fast as possible for as long as possible I think you will be well advised to get as good a CPU cooler as possible. The gold standard is the Noctua DH series.
 
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Quartz said:
From what I've read - I don't use it myself - Solidworks itself is largely single-threaded but Solidworks Visualise likes a quad core CPU. So if you want your single core to go as fast as possible for as long as possible I think you will be well advised to get as good a CPU cooler as possible. The gold standard is the Noctua DH series.
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The rendering in solidworks can utilise more cores and also some add-ons like photoview 360 , 8 cores would be easily achievable in that budget.
 
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