Building multitasking/dual screen PC for autocad

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Hi, I'm an engineer residing in malaysia right now and is new in this community. I would appreciate it very much fellow users are able to advice me on the choices of components for my computer build.
I want to build a pc mainly to do designing such as autocad and solidworks and also entertainment purposes. It would be great if it is able to open up to 10 drawings including rendering of 3D drawings, with multiple sheets of microsoft projects and microsoft excel running as well. I want it to be smooth and lagless while switching from program to program. Also running at the same time is my media, such as foobar or media player classic running on another screen all together. I'm hoping to reuse my dell vostro 200 casing if able to cut cost.
I am not so good with computers components, so i hope you all can help me out with this. thank you very much =)
 
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Autocad requirements very little computer to run well as it's a 2-D based system. Their website recommends a 64 bit Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 so any modern PC should be fine for that.

I do work with Solidworks and that needs a bit more. The key things for Solidworks are: Plenty of memory (I'd recommend at least 8gb, preferably 16) and a workstation class graphics card (best value for money is usually an AMD FirePro in Solidworks).

I would buy a new case as Dell use proprietor cases that may not include standard mounting hole locations and such.

If you're planning on doing any rendering or video editing then a fast multi core cpu is recommended, otherwise a dual core would be fine for modelling and drawings.

If you're on a tight budget something like the AMD FX 8320 is good value for money and is fast at rendering with its 8 threads. If you have more money to spend then an Intel Core i7 4770 is a fantastic CPU and is faster overall than the AMD.

The main thing though is to make sure you get a workstation type graphics card and not a gaming card. Solidworks will run on a gaming card- but it disables most of the graphics options and performs poorly. Key point- a £100 AMD FirePRO or Nvidia Quadro will run Solidworks better than a £400 gaming card like an R9 290 or Nvidia GTX 780 (however the workstation cards are slower in games).
 
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