new CAD and max machine

warrentdo · 1 Feb 2014 at 23:23

new CAD and max machine £1500 ish

Hello all.
New cad machine time again. Inventor 20000 part plus assemblies
and 3ds Max animations and renders.
Well I think that the CPU is a certainty with a 4770k but now
the graphics card. Does anyone have any opinions, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti maybe overkill. I dont think i can push the boat out for a quadra k4000. I will need fast memory at least 16gig, fast 256 ssd and 2tb fast hard drive. Also quiet ish if possible.
Case not for looks but speed so nothing special.
Please can anyone help. Looking to spend about £1500 ish.
Thanks in advance,
Warren

warrentdo · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:51

Hello Fulax, and thanks for the reply.
Sorry I missed the info off. Will get monitors later.
Looking to self build to save some cash, but not sure how much more it cost to get one built. Time is money and all that.
Will need win 7ult plus DVD burner.
I've just seen one on a competitors site for about £1800 but can't find anything similar on OC. That one is water cooled which sounds good to try and keep the thing a little quieter before the graphics card kicks in.
Regards
Warren.

warrentdo · 2 Feb 2014 at 23:47

Hello all and thanks for the input. Inventor isn't multi thread in the main although it does have certain part a that are, fea, IDW (2013) so really clock speed is still king. The 4930 I don't think would help me muck for the price hike. I thought the ti may be over kill but it is a killer card and although the 290 have a gig more I thought I read that they are a little down the the GPU charts compared to the to
ti? Inventor will be run under direct x I think and not open cl. Quadro do have nice drivers. Keep um coming chaps I will have a new PC by the end of the week :-)

Warren

warrentdo · 6 Feb 2014 at 21:23

ZXSpectrum said:
We have supplied a fair amount of UK design houses and they have had a lot of issues with 3DS Max and using consumer grade cards. Not just 3DS Max though but also Solidworks, V-Ray and Catia.

I think that I am leaning towards the ti, I'm also a little concerned about the heat the 290 runs at and the fans that it needs, I'm after a quiet ish machine.