So i just started using cad, and will be doing so the several years to come. I need to make a build that can easily run intensive cad work, the program i will be running is creo parametrics, apparently it support open gl graphics cards but it is not compatible with the amd-fx cpus. I also will be running quite a bit of matlab. The budget is £1000 and amazon is the prefered retailer. i think quality is more important than raw performance, and peripherals are not required. I don't see many builds of this kind so don't really know what to look for, not many people do cad focused builds. thanks in advance.
not compatible with FX cpus?! i'l familiar with creo/elements though....
maybe not for open gl, but whatever. do you do alot of ray-tracing and rendering as well?
isocket 1150 xeon e3. the hardware support specs are scarce, so this is the safest bet. gpu, i have no fkn clue. i'd send an inquiry to PTC about it...
Well a lot of both, rendering and assembling part and ray- tracing. quite a lot of the work will be loading complex structures and focusing on properties of specific elements.
you're gonna want a hyperthreaded xeon e3, 1150 socket, on an asus WS board, as for the GPU, i have no clue.
Alright, this is what I could come up with.
CPU: i7 4770k - £237.40
MB: Asrock z87 Extreme4 - £119.71
RAM: 16gb Patriot Viper 3 1600mhz - £109.31
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3k 120gb - £73.17
Storage: Seagate 1tb 7200rpm - £50.95
Vid Card: ATI FIrePro V5900 - £299.99
PSU: Fractal Design Tesla 500W Gold - £59.94
Case: Corsair 300r - £56.90
Total: £1007.33
Initially I was going to go LGA 2011, but you really aren't benefiting until you make the jump to 6 cores. The 4770k is faster for the same price.
AMD and PTC partnered up for Creo Parametric, so one would think that they would have the best performance overall with that program.
An SSD for a CAD system is a must. If you don't need masive amounts of storage, I would drop the HDD for a larger SSD (Preference, really).
Programs like this eat RAM like no tomorrow. 16gb should have you covered. I've never seen one of my models use over 13gb of RAM.
No CPU cooler, but this is a really wicked system for the price. That could be a future upgrade to consider.
You don't NEED it. it's preferred for the accuracy, but at this budget it's just not feasible. It could fit in the budget, but the whole system would be off balance.
I was saying xeon because compatibility.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116908
I would assume he's using more than one monitor as well
I jsut don't know about that psu, looks iffy to me. you want something with seasonic internals. or CWT. cwt isn't bad, seasonic is better though
Well for 30 quid more, there's the RM 550 or the Seasonic G450. But that's even further out of the budget. The Fractal is by no means a bad power supply. Read up on the Hardwaresecrets review. Voltage reg and ripple are quite stellar.
i have checked the raw performance of the firepro card and it is really great, i would prefer something that can game as well but the price to performance of the firepro is good. also do you know if there is another mobo similarly priced to the asrock, the vrm doesn't seem to be as beefy as the asus boards. one concern that i do have is the compatibility of the gpu with the motherboard.
Fractal Design Tesla psu's are actualy not bad for there price thay are rebrands of the rosewill fortress (that cost allmost 2 times as much)
Haswell cpu's have most of the voltage regulation moved on to the cpu its self, so there is no need to buy a mobo with a crazy amount of vrm's for haswell cpu's.