New system for CAD type applications

petertr2000

petertr2000

petertr2000

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My brother in law has just asked me about building a new desktop for his uni course for his architecture/CAD type packages he uses that are overwhealming his current laptop.


Does anyone who where the demand comes from on these types off apps - is it CPU or GPU?

Budge will be a massive factor in the build. Although I'd certainly go for an SSD as I understand the application is frequently reading and writing large files. Lots of RAM too, at least 8Gb.


My initial guess would be an AMD APU?
 
Doomedspeed said:
Don't go with an APU.

Depending on the Program in question, its normally CPU and RAM based, GPU plays a small part but mainly for extra processing through CUDA or OpenCL/GL.

I think the Piledriver series may be worth looking at due to the amount of virtual core the CPU's offer. And Nvidia GPu will help due to CUDA.

What is the overall budget for this?
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My thought in favour of an amd apu was that it over clocks either the cpu or gpu depending on demand, which seems to fit the requirement? Especially keeping costs down.

Sorry, i don't know what cuda is. The requirements for the software only seem to mention shader model 3 is required.
 
Thanks.

If the i7 is out of budget, which i suspect it will be, is there a budget option?

He's on a 2 year old laptop right now, so the difference is going to be massive regardless
 
Thanks for the replies & sorry that i can't answer a lot of the questions right now. I don't know anything about the app, so i can't even guess.

Will pick this up with him next time i see him

Thanks again.
 
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