Advice for Solidworks Build

n31l354

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Hi Everyone,

I'd like to say thanks in advance for your help and advice.
Basically, I am looking to build my first PC.
The programs I plan to use are: Solidworks, Matlab, Photoshop, Illustrator.
I'm not into gaming. This is purely meant to be a work-machine.

To this end, I asked a friend to help me source parts, but we don't know what we're doing.
Any comments or revisions would be appreciated. I have a budget of £1800.

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K 4.0Ghz Quad-Core processor (£323.99 Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.95 Novatech)

Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£123.47 Dabs)

GPU: AMD Firepro W7000 Graphics Card - 4Gb (£551.64 Scan)

RAM: Corsair Vengaeance LPX 32Gb (4x8Gb) DDR4-2400 Memory (£145.99 Amazon)

Hard Drive: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250Gb 2.5" SSD (£58.78 Amazon)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£50.34 Aria PC)

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£73.99 Amazon)

Power Supply: Seasonic EVO Edition 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£86.94 CCL Computers)

Total: £1440.09

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Rr9kpg
 

chilly2468

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looks like a pretty powerful workstation that has some pretty good parts in it. The only thing I would change is the power supply. You got a really good brand but you could save a bit of money by getting a lower wattage psu.

How about this one: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/wbV9ZL

This psu can still provide more than enough power for this system and has a gold efficiency rating rather than a bronze.
 

Anarkie13

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Honestly, as a SolidWorks administrator, I'd happily hand out that build to my users. It's plenty powerful, and will give both good stability and rendering. The only thing you'd be able to improve in my book is to increase the SSD to a 1TB for SolidWorks file storage AND use for the active assemblies. This will give faster speeds (loading large or detailed parts/assemblies) than if you used the Seagate.