Some help with my assignment

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taylormsj

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Just got my first assignment from college and was wondering if any one could help clear a few things up with me.

The assignment reads

"Find all the components needed to build a modern computer system. This system is intended to be used in a CAD office with the need to print out A! size drawings. Cost is not the prime consideration, however do not go for the most expensive components possible."

I have chosen a gigabyte ds3, 4 gb corsair, corsair PSU antec p180 etc... i need some help in the graphics department. What should i put in for the graphics as the high end quadro cards are £0000's and i need to justify the cost. Should i just bung in a cheap DX10 card like 8600 or 2600. I supose i need to know how much of an improvement a cad card gives over a mainstream card, and wether the price is justifyable.
My tutor seems to think that a current card can do the job.

Also are there any specific requiremens for a CAD machine in terms of keyboard and mouse?

One last thing, my tutor advised us of not going quad core because autodesk does not specify that it supports quad cores. Can anyone verify that it does or doesnt work with a quad (i personally think that is a load of bull, of course it wwould work) i need it from a source so i can refer to it in my assignment

Thanks for any help
 
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Oh man, I had to build a Multimedia Computer for my college essay last year, I got marked down for putting a PCI-e card in there, I had to explain to the tutor that PCI-e is better than AGP, with the x16, and AGP only being x8 :P

Anyway, I think the Quad Core would work, I don't have proof of this, but, even if it doesn't, if it works with dual cores, it'll use two of the cores, and then the other two could be used for something else on the computer... You know!
 
For a workstation you really want a professional card. You don't need the newest quadro/firegl though.
 
Yeah I'd say a cheaper quadro would be sufficient. I'd say 4GB might be overkill but not necessarily since RAM isn't really that expensive. CAD isn't written specifically for 4 cores so it won't utilize them all at once, but that doesn't mean it won't still run. And most times people who are using CAD are running other programs as well, so the two extra cores would still come in handy.
 
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