Spec me a CAD/CAM PC for £900?

MiSJAH · 7 Mar 2019 at 17:59

As per the title. A mate needs a CAD/CAM desktop with Win 10 and a keyboard. Work has given him a £900 budget.

What's the best he can get for the money?

Cheers.

MiSJAH · 7 Mar 2019 at 18:15

Armageus said:
Why not a laptop?

Could get a decent used laptop with quadro card for that I imagine - Dell precision or similar

Employers preference.

MiSJAH · 7 Mar 2019 at 19:22

This is what I am looking at so far:

Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
Alpenföhn - BEN NEVIS 56 CFM CPU Cooler
MSI - X470 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard
Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Video Card
Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Logitech - K120 - UK Layout Wired Standard Keyboard

Total including VAT and delivery is £887.21

Any better suggestions?

Thanks.

MiSJAH · 8 Mar 2019 at 10:52

Danny75 said:
Already got PSU?

Would be good to squeeze 16GB RAM in. Maybe if they have back-up at work he can ditch the 1TB mech.

Seen a GTX 1060 6GB going for £189.99 which may be better than equivalent AMD for this purpose if apps benefit from CUDA. Plus less power.

Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
Cryorig M9a 48.4CFM CPU Cooler
MSI - B450M Mortar Micro ATX AM4 motherboard
Kingston - Predator 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 memory
Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB GT OCV1 Video Card
Fractal Design - Define Mini C Micro-ATX Mid Tower Case
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Logitech - K120 - UK Layout Wired Standard Keyboard
Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Total including VAT and delivery is £931.04

Bit over but includes PSU and 16GB RAM, still keeping 1TB mech drive. No need for 550W but lesser wattage options weren't as good for the money. There are cheaper micro-ATX cases than that Fractal as well. And a bit cheaper 16GB 3000MHz RAM.

Re: motherboard, Buildzoid thinks best budget micro-ATX choice if wanting to overclock a Ryzen 2700.

Great stuff, thanks.

Just been told storage will come from a NAS so only a small boot drive required.

MiSJAH · 8 Mar 2019 at 22:14

gthlm said:
Which cadcam software specifically?

There is a lot of varying gpu support in this field. Many work fine on a non-workstation card, many do not.

Fusion 360 is the main software they use.