Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP
Budget Range: ~$1250
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and then low power SolidWorks 2013 usage
Are you buying a monitor: No
Do you need to buy OS: Yes - leaning toward Win 7 64-bit. Not sure of the difference between premium and professional. Suggestions?
Location: South East PA. Bucks County
My biggest challenge with this build is that I want a good gaming machine, but I also want to be able to use SW from home when necessary. Game cards work on DirectX and SW uses openGL. It is my understanding that the CPU will have to do all the processing if I use a gaming card for SW. With that in mind I'm leaning toward the following:
Intell i7-4770
16GB Ram (can i use 2x8gb and leave room for expansion instead of 4x4gb?)
small 120GB SSD boot drive
1 TB hard drive
Nvidia GTX660 - simply because of SW success stories and decent gaming reviews.
PSU req'd is 500W (should I go larger?)
I did some looking online ibuypower seemed to have the most flexibility, good prices, but also terrible customer support, so I built up a system on PCPartPicker and I would love your feedback.
Here's the link to what I was looking at:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3r0b3
OR
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ttdiver/saved/4m6T
Budget Range: ~$1250
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and then low power SolidWorks 2013 usage
Are you buying a monitor: No
Do you need to buy OS: Yes - leaning toward Win 7 64-bit. Not sure of the difference between premium and professional. Suggestions?
Location: South East PA. Bucks County
My biggest challenge with this build is that I want a good gaming machine, but I also want to be able to use SW from home when necessary. Game cards work on DirectX and SW uses openGL. It is my understanding that the CPU will have to do all the processing if I use a gaming card for SW. With that in mind I'm leaning toward the following:
Intell i7-4770
16GB Ram (can i use 2x8gb and leave room for expansion instead of 4x4gb?)
small 120GB SSD boot drive
1 TB hard drive
Nvidia GTX660 - simply because of SW success stories and decent gaming reviews.
PSU req'd is 500W (should I go larger?)
I did some looking online ibuypower seemed to have the most flexibility, good prices, but also terrible customer support, so I built up a system on PCPartPicker and I would love your feedback.
Here's the link to what I was looking at:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3r0b3
OR
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ttdiver/saved/4m6T
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