Office PC / AutoCAD?

wandgrudd

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Right been out of the PC building game for many years so haven't got a clue on new stuff but looking for a Small Office / AutoCAD PC , Mainly 2D autocad with the odd bit of 3d and typical office apps (word excell etc...)

Have put together the below. and want to keep at around £1000 for everything including monitor and mouse keyboard etc.. not sure on what else i would need cable wise etc...???

ideally i would like a better GPU for autoCAD but for the time being this will suffice and is an upgrade from what i use at work currently (RX460)

does this look OK or would you alter anything?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £889.15 (includes shipping: £26.34)​
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A lot of horse power for just CAD station.

off the bat - you can get 1600AF or 2600 for quite a bit less.

CAD is not heavily threaded process so it won’t see much scaling with lots of cores and threads and will rely heavily on windows scheduler to distribute. 6 core will be more than enough. 3D packages maybe different depend on what you use.

The mobo you picked us one of the better and cheaper option. But there are cheaper boards out there namely Gigabyte but it doesn’t offer a lot of expansion. So something to bear that in mind.

the graphics card seems expensive for what it is. I can’t remember if CAD can utilise nvidia acceleration. But it is not heavy in graphics anyway. So I would probably go with cheaper Radeon options and set for something in the realm of £100 mark cards. In terms of 3D packages I don’t think they can benefit from the nvidia cars either.
 
Don't get 27" 1080p displays: the pixels are too large and it just looks horrible. Get yourself 1440p or 4k displays, and get quality ones like Dell Ultrasharps. Your eyes are worth it.

And the 1050 Ti has been superceded by the 1650 Super.
 
If you're going 3d Revit and rendering then CPU threads do matter. 2d AutoCAD less so. It's all about memory buffer and being able to real time refresh all the lines and hatches continuously as you zoom and pan. Autodesk have recommendations on their website.
 
ik9000 said:
If you're going 3d Revit and rendering then CPU threads do matter. 2d AutoCAD less so. It's all about memory buffer and being able to real time refresh all the lines and hatches continuously as you zoom and pan. Autodesk have recommendations on their website.
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I don’t think revit renderer uses any form of graphics acceleration. It is pure CPU horse power. There are other software (plugin) that can render revit model more efficiently but I don’t think any of them are particularly well threaded programmes. I think having 8 cores and 16 threads might be wasted. Autodesk is notorious at optimising their software. Their software are generally considered to be bloat.

the best CAD version I have used is LITE.

definitely won’t buy 1660 super for just a revit or cad machine.

I would put money into getting 32GB maybe 64GB ram. Which means those cheap B450m boards will be limited as they only have 2 dim slots.

regarding the screen definitely get a dell ultra sharp display. Screen is something you look at all the time and it is the thing you want to get right to protect yourself.

probably for your build you can achieve what you want for way less

- ryzen 2600
- asrock B450m Pro4
- 32GB DDR4 3000mhz
- 500GB SSD (fast one like evo or mx500)
- 1TB HDD
- Radeon RX 580 or get 3200G CPU with Vega graphics
- cheapest matx case you can find that suits your style
- 500w PSU
- 2 decent fans
- spare cash for a noctua cpu cooler
 
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