Hi guys,
I just graduated mechanical engineering and need to up grade my desktop pc for a more serious work load since i have been using my macbook pro 2015 running bootcamp through out my schooling. It has been a great companion and has been reliable running solidworks with decent size assemblies and simulations but just wont cut it for professional work with larger tasks. i will be running mostly solidworks and autocad. I currently have a Asus P6X58D Premium mother board with a I7 with 6 cores(not sure what gen or speed) , as for ram whats currently in there is Kingston 6 GB triple channel (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL9. And for graphics is a really old amd 1gb card. OS is windows 10 Pro
currently what i have planned for upgrading is:
-24GB (3x8GB) Kingston HyperX Fury Black 1600MHz
-PNY nVidia Quadro P4000 8GB
-Kingston A400 960GB SATA3 6Gb/s 2.5" Max Seq.Read:500MB/s,Max Seq.Write:450MB/s
i know most of this stuff is not all bleeding edge tech like DDR4 and Nvme M2.0 SSD, my mother board is like 8 years old. I have been contemplating building a whole new PC but its really not in the budget for me. Does anyone have any suggestions if im going about anything wrong or can for see any issues i could run in to?
Thanks.
