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thesultan4

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I have an $800 budget and I would like to get a cpu-board-gpu-memory combo for an architecture office. The main tasks will be some 3d modeling/rendering (sketch-up, Revit and Rhino), large document production (photoshop and indesign), and Cadd work (autocad). This is going to be the workstation we use to do the harder tasks. I can give a little more money for a large jump in performance but I would like to keep the package to be under $1000. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
 
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I have recently made one for Autocad - i got CADALYST test results under 10 minutes :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8dz6q1x6zwg0vs/cadalyst%20Don4eto%20i5%20score.jpg

This pick have the same specs :
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Niksavoy/saved/2Umm

And also what CAD are you plane to use the PC for ? ( upps you have writen that sorry :) )
f.e.
Autocad performs better on NVIDIA - Quadro and Gforce
but
Solidworks works better over AMD FirePro GPU`s

And also the budget is not aiming on those Pro card - consider and Double it if you like to have Pro GPU - Quadro or FirePro

I had research this and i found thet Pro cards are givving even lower performance over the GTX-660 and 670 680 ......
Also the 660 is quite the same as 660 Ti on...
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Nikolay Savov

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Hi
I have recently made one for Autocad - i got CADALYST test results under 10 minutes :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8dz6q1x6zwg0vs/cadalyst%20Don4eto%20i5%20score.jpg

This pick have the same specs :
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Niksavoy/saved/2Umm

And also what CAD are you plane to use the PC for ? ( upps you have writen that sorry :) )
f.e.
Autocad performs better on NVIDIA - Quadro and Gforce
but
Solidworks works better over AMD FirePro GPU`s

And also the budget is not aiming on those Pro card - consider and Double it if you like to have Pro GPU - Quadro or FirePro

I had research this and i found thet Pro cards are givving even lower performance over the GTX-660 and 670 680 ......
Also the 660 is quite the same as 660 Ti on Autocad performance but 660 Ti is few $ more .... if i can find the link i`ll update the post ...
 
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thesultan4

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I will be using autocad and Revit mainly. Since my 2d use of autocad runs on our crappy computers, I am interested in optimizing for revit.

I noticed that you had only 8gb of ram, do you think thats enough?

Thanks for your help
 
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Nikolay Savov

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Yes - if the budget have abit more space then you can go for 16 but i hardly doubt you will ever hit more than 6GB used ....
F.e. this Cadalyst Test is making insane Autocad Load - that you never have in normal usage - i notice that even .dwg with ALL city drawing inside is getting under 1GB of the RAM and 200-300 MB from the GPU
The GPU is under 50 % load on the heavy load - cadalyst test
 
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Yep i found that link :)
Have an look at it : http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-AutoCAD-2013-GPU-Acceleration-164/

I found that info very useful ...
 
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