- Sep 25, 2013
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One main question many other ones if anybody cares to look at 'em:
I am going to build a PC for someone to use with SOLIDWORKS, other CAD/rendering programs and some gaming.
Simulations are very important to him.
I need to know if hyper-threading is helpful in SOLIDWORKS (especially in simulations) and if so, how much.
The budget is tight enough that using an i7 would mean taking away ~$150 GPU and RAM.
Bonus:
How does the AMD fx-8xxx series fare? Are they worth considering for SOLIDWORKS?
Double Bonus:
This PC is going to be used at home for SOLIDWORKS classwork. I was intending to use a Nvidia GTX card (probably a 1060), this means no ECC/buffering. Is ECC/buffering worth having, even if the system RAM is unbuffered/non-ECC?
Triple Bonus:
Are AMD GPUs worth considering, do they perform well in SOLIDWORKS? Supposedly they perform significantly better in OpenGL than Nvidia. I generally prefer Nvidia (I've used lots of both). It always seemed to me that Nvidia/CUDA was more common and is nearly a defacto industry standard (am I wrong?). I believe the use of other renderers might be a big deal and many of them are CUDA exclusive so for AMD to be worth it it would have to be a very big price and/or performance advantage.
Extreme Bonus:
Do SSDs speed up render/sim times?
Is 32Gb of RAM going to be a big performance boost from 16?
Is 1440p worth it? (It was a big improvement over 1080 for me in various programs like AutoCAD/3dsMax/Cinema4d)
Trying to keep it under $1000 so well see what changes.
Likely build:
6600k or 6700k
16gb RAM
GTX 1060 6GB
2TB or 3TB Hitachi
1080p screen
I am going to build a PC for someone to use with SOLIDWORKS, other CAD/rendering programs and some gaming.
Simulations are very important to him.
I need to know if hyper-threading is helpful in SOLIDWORKS (especially in simulations) and if so, how much.
The budget is tight enough that using an i7 would mean taking away ~$150 GPU and RAM.
Bonus:
How does the AMD fx-8xxx series fare? Are they worth considering for SOLIDWORKS?
Double Bonus:
This PC is going to be used at home for SOLIDWORKS classwork. I was intending to use a Nvidia GTX card (probably a 1060), this means no ECC/buffering. Is ECC/buffering worth having, even if the system RAM is unbuffered/non-ECC?
Triple Bonus:
Are AMD GPUs worth considering, do they perform well in SOLIDWORKS? Supposedly they perform significantly better in OpenGL than Nvidia. I generally prefer Nvidia (I've used lots of both). It always seemed to me that Nvidia/CUDA was more common and is nearly a defacto industry standard (am I wrong?). I believe the use of other renderers might be a big deal and many of them are CUDA exclusive so for AMD to be worth it it would have to be a very big price and/or performance advantage.
Extreme Bonus:
Do SSDs speed up render/sim times?
Is 32Gb of RAM going to be a big performance boost from 16?
Is 1440p worth it? (It was a big improvement over 1080 for me in various programs like AutoCAD/3dsMax/Cinema4d)
Trying to keep it under $1000 so well see what changes.
Likely build:
6600k or 6700k
16gb RAM
GTX 1060 6GB
2TB or 3TB Hitachi
1080p screen
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