Spec a pc for design work

MG44 · 28 May 2011 at 23:17

hey guys

i am an industrial design student and i am looking to build myself a new system. my old rig is having a lot of problems running some of my larger CAD files and also photo shopping stuff in large res's.

Main program i use are Keyshot 2, Pro engineer and photoshop

I am looking to get a entry level professional graphics rendering card as i very rarely play games and the few i do own arnt very graphic intensive. That will probably be about £100 -120

I recently got myself a new PSU and HDD, a 600w OCZ modxstream and a 1TB Samsung spin point F3, will they be ok to reuse?

can you spec me the rest of the system, what are the OCUk oc bundles like?

thanks

mark

MG44 · 28 May 2011 at 23:48

yes cpu, mobo, RAM, case and cpu cooler
i got a new CD drive a few months back when the old ones motor failed so thjats one less thing aswell.

erm on the OS front iv got a win 7 upgrade disk but i would have to install vista first which isnt ideal. So will probably need 7 64bit included.
Erm budget wise, probably £400-500 i think, if any one has experience with NVIDIA's quadro range that would help me make a decision on which one to get.

Cheers

MG44 · 29 May 2011 at 00:09

what is the Phenom lik for OC'ing?
ideally id like to get 4Ghz from it as my rendering program works on sheer CPU power and not what the GPU can do.
my friends has a oc'ed i5 and its amazingly fast even when doing HD renders of metals or glossy plastics?

MG44 · 29 May 2011 at 00:44

for now lets say excluding OS and GPU i need to look into which one to get for that.
Case wise i'm tempted by the HAF 12 plus as i helped build a friends a system with that case, i would also need fan filters as a dust filled pc is one of my great hates.

So looking for
8Gb or RAM
best cpu and mobo i can squezze for that price
and easy over clocking or pre over clocked
air cooled as i have to go to and from uni and water isnt great for transporting

iv built pc's before but never over clocked

MG44 · 29 May 2011 at 01:00

that looks fantastic.
How does the SSD help? what would i load on their, windows and then set it to store everything eles on the samsung?
yes having lots of PCI's is gd as i have a asus sound card aswell
also NVIDIA's quadro professional can be SLI'd which is amazing, ati's firepro cards are currently not worth looking at they have really neglected them

would the Akasa Freedom Tower CPU Cooler fit that socket as i could reuse my current cooler then.

MG44 · 29 May 2011 at 01:16

in all honestly no
i only own 2 games, IL2 1946 and theatre of war
i spend the majority of my time slaved to CAD so having the power to improve that is more of a concern to me than playing games.
the quadro cards am looking at are single slot any way,
the dual slot quadro's are so huge they need a mount bracket to clamp onto the case to support it
and the fact they cost £3000 + is a small factor

MG44 · 30 May 2011 at 12:34

thats great thanks, i have been looking at the new quadro 600 which is at the top of the entry level cards, can get a new one for around £120-140
or if am lucky on ebay around £80 so i shall keep an eye out!

just out of interest the mobo that was spec'd above, does any one know what its like for OC'ing?

MG44 · 30 May 2011 at 13:45

whats the difference between H67 and P67?

And would a H50 or similar be worth investing in or would i only get another 200MHz from using it?

MG44 · 30 May 2011 at 15:20

actually to rub it in its £30, u have to pay another £9 if you want a disk!!
unfortunatly u have to give em ur student number and its only one copy per person so i can get lots of them