Advice for building cad station

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jschors

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I am building a cad station, and I want about 3.5+ on the cpu and 3-4 gigs of ram and around 500 gigs storage. The pc will be used mostly to run pro engineer with assemblys with 700 plus parts. This is the first pc that I have built and I need advice.


I need to know what to look for in a motherboard/which brand.
What do I have to look for when picking out the cpu.
Where do you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to ram or hard drives.

I would appreciate any advice or forwarnings that you can give me.

I am cost concious would like to keep under $2000


Thanks Joe
 
jschors said:
I am building a cad station, and I want about 3.5+ on the cpu and 3-4 gigs of ram and around 500 gigs storage. The pc will be used mostly to run pro engineer with assemblys with 700 plus parts. This is the first pc that I have built and I need advice.


I need to know what to look for in a motherboard/which brand.
What do I have to look for when picking out the cpu.
Where do you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to ram or hard drives.

I would appreciate any advice or forwarnings that you can give me.

I am cost concious would like to keep under $2000


Thanks Joe
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What do you mean by that? you want a P4 3.5GHz? A new Intel Core 2 Duo at a lower GHzage will beat the crap out of it, and will have two cores. GHz means nothing.
 
He obviously doesn't know, so we have to teach him. :)

I have no idea on a cad system what you'd have had to do except that isn't this where FireGL/Quadro cards come into play? Lots of ram and STABILITY?
 
Saurian said:
He obviously doesn't know, so we have to teach him. :)

I have no idea on a cad system what you'd have had to do except that isn't this where FireGL/Quadro cards come into play? Lots of ram and STABILITY?
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It actually doesnt have to have a Quadro card, but i dont know if we could fit one in for less than 2000. That seems like a low price overall for something with 4 gigs of RAM.
 
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