€1,200 3d CAD machine ?

528i

howdy, I've spec'd this up on hardwareversand.de (great value with top components) but haven't really been keeping pace with current trends and wanted something fast for cad & photoshop (renderings and redraws take a while) budget can go up or down, would it be as well go for a motherboard that supports ddr3 ram ? what about one of those really fast hard drives for the OS ? Is that graphics card any good or would 512mb of some other type be better ? any comments, improvements or suggestions would be great!

ASUS Striker Extreme, Sockel 775 nForce680i SLI, ATX 183,62 €
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 boxed, 12MB, LGA775, 64bit 271,21 €
MSI N9600GT-T2D1G NVIDIA 9600GT, 1024MB, PCI-Express 219,99 €
4096MB-Kit OCZ PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth, CL4 116,07 €
Rechner - Zusammenbau 19,99 €
ATX-Netzt.BE Quiet! Straight Power 650 Watt / BQT E5 89,00 €
Samsung HD753LJ 750GB S-ATA II, 32MB Cache 101,35 €
Samsung HD753LJ 750GB S-ATA II, 32MB Cache 101,35 €
Aerocool "ZeroDegree" Silber ohne Netzteil 69,77 €
LG GH20N bare schwarz 29,69 €
€1,200

yoyo

The spec looks alrite but I'm sure if your building a high spec CAD machine you use a Nvidia Quadro or ATI FireGL? That cards mostly designed for gaming and a quadro should be better for your use? I could be wrong though

Nick

PogMoThoin

:rolleyes: Like he said, any gpu would do, thats a gaming one.

Pointless also going for a sli motherboard.

528i

The new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (sounds the bizz) doesn't seem readily available just yet, at least not on komplet, dabs or hardwareversand.de and costs around $1700 in the states, but presumably because that's an SLi motherboard means it can be added down the road?, and then used for graphic intensive CAD stuff and the other one (above) for whatever else on different monitors ? I plan on having about 3 monitors, cad, msoffice & porn rather than hopping around all the time.

Wouldn't go with Ati for anything again, I have 3 dead radeons sitting here as paperweights, I think they got too hot and burned themselves out, made funny groaning noises beforehand all three of them!! maybe their current stuff is ok but I've never had any problems with nvidia.

That site hasn't given the option for adding a heatsink, that's presumably included on the cpu ? they tend to run pretty hot here would a water cooling option be better ?

Voodu Child

528i wrote: »

Is that graphics card any good or would 512mb of some other type be better ? any comments, improvements or suggestions would be great!

That's a gaming graphics card. The Quadro cards are Nvidia's CAD-oriented cards. They're very expensive compared to the Geforce, and actually overpriced considering a lot of them are fundamentally identical to the equivalent Geforce card (the quadro's are selected from the batch because they did better in stability/stress-tests etc. And obviously are flashed with different firmware).

But anyway, if you're building a high-end CAD workstation, that's what you're going to want, an OpenGL specific card.

chat2joe

3D CAD isn't toooo resource heavy so if was me I wouldn't over do the system with "gaming" graphics cards... I'd use the money to get a big ass monitor!!