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Hello, I've been a theoretical PC enthusiast for a while but I recently finally decided to build my own pc. specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor Thermalright contact frame CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock Z690 PG Velocita ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: PNY RTX A-Series RTX A4500 20 GB Video Card Case: Antec DP503 ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 TT Premium 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fans 5-Pack Windows 11 pro Thermals are stable. After some testing I had to set the the Ram to 5600 cl28 which solved my BOD problems and passed memtes86 and windows memory diagnostics. The PROBLEM: One of the main purposes of the build is to work on Solidworks, unfortunately after soldiworks loads up simple activities on a blank file are laggy (especially smart dimensions). This is very starange since this poblem occurs even a simple rectangle. I have a thinkpad p53s which in specs is much more inferior but it is fast enough for small to medium projects. VAR and solidworks forums so far have not been very helpful. Any soldiworks user out there that may have faced something similar? Please help.

Budget (including currency): $2000 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly SolidWorks (100+ part models), Abaqus/Standard, and CVX/MOSEK scripts for design optimization (projected to be about 1-2 days runtime) Other details: I'm doing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and I've saved up some money to upgrade to a more powerful PC as my models/simulations get more complex. I'm upgrading from a laptop with an Intel i7-8750H, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 8GB, and 16 GB RAM. This has worked OK until now, but it lags when I try to work with SolidWorks models with >20 parts and I'm worried about continuing to push the CPU to 90+% usage for hours or days at a time for my FEA simulations/optimization scripts, so I want a desktop. I already have a monitor (4K, 27", 60 Hz)/keyboard/mouse in my lab. I'd appreciate any advice/suggestions when planning a workstation PC like this! I had a few questions in particular as well: From my understanding, SolidWorks benefits from more RAM and a workstation GPU, Abaqus benefits (marginally?) from a workstation GPU, and CVX/MOSEK benefit from lots of cores/threads. Hence why I went with an Intel 13700K (16 cores, 24 threads) over an AMD Ryzen 7800X3D (8 cores, 16 threads) and an Nvidia Quadro over gaming GPUs, but does this make sense from a price-to-performance standpoint? Any tips on how much RAM might be sufficient? I've only ever had 2, 8, or 16GB, so 64GB already seems like a luxury - should I consider 128 GB if I can afford it, or should I put that money towards something else? Any tips on how much GPU VRAM might be sufficient? I can only find the 8 GB Quadro RTX 4000 or 8 GB AMD Radeon Pro W6600 on eBay right now - are there any alternatives or any 16 GB cards I should look out for? Any tips between an Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 and an Nvidia Quadro P6000? They're about the same price on eBay, and UserBenchmark reports they trade blows. I'm worried about driver support for a 7-year old GPU, though - should I be worried about that at all? I'm thinking of buying parts during Memorial Day next month, which might open up more options in my budget as well: PC Part Picker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4Pz9Vw CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K ($415) GPU: PNY Quadro RTX 4000 ($480 for a used 8GB card on eBay) Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z790M-Plus D4 LGA 1700 ($190, Amazon bundles this with their CPUs) RAM: Corsair Vengeance 64 GB DDR5-5600 CL40 ($225) Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 ($80) Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W ($150) CPU Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black ($35) Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower ($70) Total: $1645 I appreciate any advice! Thank you!

Budget (including currency): $300USD-$600USD Upgrade Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 1080p ultra 144HZ Gaming, Solidworks Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Here's what I've got currently: CPU: Core I7-4790k CPU Cooler: Noctua NHD-15 (very overkill, I'm aware lol) MB: MSI Z87 MPower RAM: 16gb corsair 1600mHz GPU: Nvidia GTX950 SSD: 480gb Hyundai ssd Case: Old workstation case PSU: Older Thermaltake 600W Currently getting my desktop ready for college, going to be studying mechanical engineering. Not 100% sure what workloads I'll be dealing with in Solidworks, but according to college recommendations they want something that will run Solidworks well Games I actively play: Phasmaphobia, BeamNG.drive, and Forza Horizon 3 and 4. I also stack images and compile photos into video for my astrophotography hobby. Looking at getting an RX6600, I was wondering if I could run that along a Quadro P4000 or similar card, or if the 6600 would do well enough.

Budget (including currency): 2000 ish (usd) Country: United states Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: solidworks is what im building for and it just need to run the new halo when it comes out Other details I am looking for a motherboard and cpu combo that would work best for me(i have most everything else figured out) currently have an ITX case from a build that I would like to use and a ax860 that I would like to use to keep it cheap Something I have not seen covered a lot is that for solidworks simulations and mesh analysis do happen a lot. Im not doing stress analysis on an entire building but maybe a motor or a frame for my senior project and personal projects past that. I despise crashes from solidworks during these operations. I am looking to buy a rtx 4000 quadro(unless the amd competition is amazing and I don't know), this should make it plenty cabable but takes up a lot of the budget. I am now looking at making my CPU as stable as possible. solidworks from what I can tell does use multicore well. I want to run analysis or flow simulations and analysis and come back to it done or watch a youtube video while it computes, and NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT CRASHING. This means I want a very stable system. I have been looking at ecc supported CPU's but in the newer generations from both sides this features has been dropped from consumer grade chips(not xeon and epyc). I will most likely be running 2 1080 monitors or 1 1080 and 1 4k monitor. In a dream world the i9 10900f would support it and I could find a board for it. however the best I can come up with is the following --a 1900x threadripper on an atx board (ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 ATX sTR4) -cons: have to buy a case, 3 generation old chip, no wifi, need a new amd style cooler(only have intel), rumored issues with a quadro card? (can someone confirm or deny this) -pros 2.5gb/s ethernet, ecc supported m.2 supported, room for a wireless card, raid support, 2 more cores over competition --Intel Xeon E-2176G 3.7 GHz 6-Core with an Asus P11C-I Mini ITX LGA1151 -cons: no wireless, no m.2, ugly board, 8th generation chip, 2 less cores - pros: itx form factor, higher boost clock, enterprise level chip(maybe more stable), 2 x 1000 Mbit/s ethernet or just forget about ecc get the following --i9 10900f with Asus ROG STRIX Z490-I GAMING Mini ITX LGA1200 -cons: no ecc support - pros: core count, newish generation intel, wifi 6, raid, m.2, 2.5gb/s ethernet these are my current build GPU would most likely stay with the quadro 4000 unless you can tell me other wise, memory would match CPU(ecc or not) 32gb either way. I am not familiar with ryzen so I have not been able to put together a build with AMD, but from what I see they do not support ecc. If you notice any incompatibility please do let me know. I am not as well versed as many of you on this forum that is why I am here humbly asking for help. Any and all help is appreciated! thank you in advance and for even reading!

Hello all, I built two workstations based on an Edgecam requirement for one of my users. Taking a look at the requirements for Edgecam the website claims the software is multi-threaded so that implies that Edgecam will utilize the big bad i9 processors that I bought for the two builds, but what about Quadro GPUs in SLI? I've looked for documentation on multi-gpu configurations and can't find anything. Solidworks is supposedly single threaded and will only use one gpu. Any help or recommendations for multi-gpu support for Edgecam or Solidworks would be greatly appreciated. Nico

Currently I have a laptop with the first ryzen processor to be announed(I think). The laptop I'm currently using right now has ryzen 7-3750h, rx5500m graphics and 16gb ram and it does almost everything I want like browsing the web and playing games comfortably(depends on game title) except for solidworks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bd9mdGr5BQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1OwIMqsBg Does anyone know a fix? The shorter video was the first problem i had and then after disabling graphic setting and using opengl, solidworks became slow as seen in the longer video Is my laptop too weak? Since I am a university student, the only option I have is using a laptop and I have to move back into dorms soon so I need a decision soon Is there a fix with my current laptop? Or I need a more powerful laptop with cpu and gpu? Because my local shop sells more laptops with ryzen cpu(ryzen 9-4900hs and ryzen 7-4800hs) than intel cpu Any help is appreciated

Budget (including currency): UD$400 not including graphics card Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Solid Works, AutoCAD, some gaming (MTGA, AOE2, maybe AOE4 soon, Warframe), D&D with friends over discord and roll 20 so there will be multiple applications open at the same time but none of them too demanding like chrome multiple windows with multiple tabs, discord, excell, occasionally other random things like paint and snipping tool. Background I lucked out and got a new graphics card for close to msrp and plan to start a business doing freelance engineering, drafting, and maybe 3d printing. My previous company is hiring me to do some work and we have signed a 1 year contract they use Solidworks primarily and it is what I know best. They do rather large assemblies with a lot of parts but don't use any of the extras in Solidworks like animations and such. My Existing Build CPU AMD A10-6800K 4.1 GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard ASRock FM2A88X PRO3+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard Cooler Stock that came with it Graphics Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 4 GB Video Card RAM Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1866 CL10 Memory Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB Case Cooler Master Elite 430 ATX Mid Tower Case Power supply Antec Basiq 500 W ATX Power Supply Notes I have decent monitors, case fans, coolers and other periphrials that will be reused My New Build CPU (Reused) AMD A10-6800K 4.1 GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard (Reused) ASRock FM2A88X PRO3+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED 66.3 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler $34.99 Graphics Card AMD Radeon Pro W5500 8 GB Video Card RAM (1/2 Reused) (Reused) Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1866 CL10 Memory (New) Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1866 CL10 Memory $162.66 Storage (Reused) Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB Case Phanteks Eclipse P350X ATX Mid Tower Case $54.99 Power supply Gigabyte P GM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply 119.99 Notes I know that the power supply is more than necessary but I like for things to be upgrade proof. My main question is about my CPU, is it enough? It advertises as a quad core but in 2 phisical modules so is it enough to do the computing I need for Solidworks? I can sell my old graphics card for a decent price If i need to upgrade the CPU. Thanks for your help

My main rig is used mainly for photography work and some CAD work (I'm an engineer but mostly use this for personal stuff), I DO NOT use it for gaming (haters gonna hate). I built my PC a couple of years back and the spec isn't top end, but it was good at the time and was one of the best for single thread processing (as that was where photoshop got the most benefit). - i7 7700K OC to ~5gHz Watercooled AiO (may get upgraded later) - Asus RoG Maximus IX Code Motherboard - 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz CL15 - 2TB Sabrent Rocket NVME 4 - 3TBx2 Raid Drives + another 16TB on TrueNAS server (just built :-p) - Gigabyte GTX1070 windforce OCii 8GB DDR5 Driving 2x 27" Benq 4k Monitors I would like to transfer that Graphics card to another system and get something better suited to what I use this one for, my Camera is a Canon 5DS with 50Mp sensor so pretty big files, especially when you're stacking images. Some of my CAD workalthough mostly hobby stuff can get pretty big and complex, though I don't do a lot of "photo realistic" rendering i certainly do work in 3D almost entirely. So working to a budget of £400 (about $550?) what is going to be my best banng for buck performance? 1. Keep the GTX1070 because in that budget, not much else will give more performace and get something budget friendly for my other rig (which is going to be used mostly for streaming and some video decoding)? 2. Get a Quadro K5000 and a Tesla K80 or something similar for the VRAM? (about £300-400 total possible) 3. Get a slightly higher end GPU (NVidia or AMD?) than the GTX1070, but will it give me much more performance? 4. Stretch the budget a little to get???????? Help, advice, comments welcome Steve

Budget (including currency): $500-1000 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Solidworks primarily with only reading drawings and occasionally opening models. No editing. Light office work. Other details: I have a Quadro 2000 V2 1GB GDDR5 and a PNY Quadro P1000 but I will consider a better card if it fits under $1000 budget. Also pre-built's are also accepted assuming they're in stock and can be shipped immediately. I also have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

What would you guys recommend for a GPU or GPU's in a sever. Planning on running 3-5 SolidWorks applications through virtualization as well as a few other VM's and have the server as a file server. We have good luck in our workstations with Quadro p1000 but that's for our more high end work.

Budget (including currency): Keep it reasonable Country: Canada Programs or workloads that it will be used for: Multiple Solidworks virtual machines, (Probably less than 4), and various other less intensive VM's. Also a file server. Other details I want to build a professional server to host about 3-5 Solidworks applications at the same time. Also want to host some smaller VM's and also want it to act as a file server, probably around 20tb. The reason I want this is because I'm doing some Solidworks training and don't want to buy a bunch of workstations, (Performance is ideal but not very critical). Planning on replacing the current Synology NAS with this and using the Synology as a backup for the server. What kind of specs would I need for this and is feasible?

Hey I just installed Solidworks for university. Then I realized after installing it, the battery drains so fast. Normally it last for about 5-6 hours with word and chrome opened. Now it only lasted for only about 1.5-2 hours doing the same thing. What's happening here? Does Solidworks has some kind of services that runs in the background that's draining my battery? Also before that the fan was running very slowly so it's basically silent. Now it always spun up to full speed and it's quite loud.

Budget (including currency): £500 (give or take; preferably take) Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Solidworks, Fusion 360, Illustrator, FL Studio, Ableton, Keyshot, Premiere Hello all, First time user of this forum and new to the idea of building a computer. Currently using a second hand CAD machine from an office. I've got a pretty intensive Blender project underway spanning the space of several months and have been seriously suffering with cycles render times. This is a pretty CPU intensive task so that's the main focus of the upgrade / rebuild. I'm also planning on doing some Eevee rendering (which uses the GPU) - add on top of that the fact that my current GPU is not compatible with Premiere. Struggling to justify the steep costs however as I'm not much of a gamer. I do also produce music but I don't see this as being a big factor in my reason to upgrade. Another struggle I've had is big lag with large CAD assemblies. I'd basically like my computer to be a beast at all of the softwares listed above. I've very quickly thrown together a parts list with some help from a friend and was hoping for some feedback. I would be very appreciative of any advice! And for those interested, I'm toying with the idea of throwing this all in a Mac G5 case as I think they're damn good looking. I've got a 3D printer to do all the mounting with. Current specs: Proposed parts list: Many thanks in advance, Franky

Budget (including currency): ~£250 gbp Country: England Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: cad modeling and simulation Current rig: Ryzen 5 2600 oc'ed to 4.2 asrock b450 steel legend Corsair Vengence Pro RGB 2666 cl16 32GB oc'ed to 3200 cl15 GTX 970 strix SSD storage Corsair CM450 Corsair 220T I'm hopfuly starting my areospace engineering course at UWE in september, and one of the year one modules is cad and simulations. I'm assuming I'll have access to Uni tech but I would like to be able to do it on my own pc as well. I dont know what software they are using, but at a guess id say its probably solidworks. At the moment, I should have around £250 in hand, however as I upgrade I intend to sell my old parts on, so I could probably get another 100 each for gpu/cpu. If I sell my CPU and add that money to the pile, I would be looking at around ~350, which raises the question of what would bring me the most benifit, a ryzen 7 3700x or a ryzen 5 5600x as they are both similar prices, or would I be better getting a ryzen 7 2800x second hand and saving money for a better gpu? I was looking at maybe asking for a 3060ti for my upcoming birthday, but would the larger vram of the regular 3060 give me more benifits over the faster cores? Finally, if anyone out here using solid works could tell me if my cpu is actually fine and I only need a GPU or vise versa. Any help is appricated and I'm trying to keep the budget low

Budget (including currency): $650, initially - but this is flexible if it has to be. Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: SolidWorks 2020, Rocket League, unknown games Other details: ~60 FPS @1080p gaming, 2 monitor setup when not gaming. Must have WiFi. Co-worker is asking for about a $500 PC that can do light CAD and decent gaming. Convinced him to spend a little more. Requirements he gave me were: 32GB RAM, solid state boot drive, 1080p gaming at a decent framerate, and a computer that doesn't run like a** when he's gaming or doing CAD. The problem I'm running into is that he said, after the fact, that the CAD he wants to run is SolidWorks. SW wants to run on/is only certified for workstation-class cards (quadro), but I don't know much about them or how to pick a decent one. Inventor and AutoCAD have the ability to use DirectX and don't need OpenGL hardware support, which would have made this a non-issue, because those would have run on Geforce cards just fine. What I'm seeing is that workstation cards blow up his budget if he wants to do gaming at a decent level of performance with one. If I use a Geforce card, I worry that SW won't run well - I know RealView won't work, but I just don't want it to be unstable or extremely terrible performance otherwise (i.e.graphical issues, crashing, etc). From what I'm seeing, AMD Radeon cards tend not to work whatsoever with SW - for AMD graphics cards, it's workstation class or nothing. I don't know what to recommend to him, but I'm trying not to have to go back to him and explain he's SOL. As for the CPU, before I take any grief for it, I went with an i3 (below) because AMD motherboards with onboard WiFi are terribly expensive compared to LGA1200 motherboards with WiFi. I would have loved to recommend an AMD CPU, but I can't get the budget to work. Any comments are welcome. As configured: CPU: Intel i3 10100 or 10100F Motherboard: Gigabyte B460M DS3H AC RAM: Patriot Viper Elite 32gb (2x16), 2666MHz C16 Boot: Crucial BX500 480GB Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB (later) Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 1650 Super OC Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 mATX PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500W (owned)

Budget $1200: Just for tower Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Workbench/Gaming Autodesk: Autocad Mudbox Solid Works ---------------------- COD warzone Cyberpunk Doom Open world games Other details Ryzen 7 3600x 32GB 3600Mhz Radeon Pro WX 4100 Radeon RX 5600 XT ASUS TUF X570 - Plus ATX SSD WD Black 500gb Mid Tower ATX case I will decide on after I finalize the build. Is my processor over doing it for the WX 4100 or under? I ask this because the best Ryzen for the RX 5600XT is the Ryzen 5 3600. Saving money with out too much comprimise is important. I am not designing massive sky scrapers. I will be doing 3D sculpting and designing Scifi ships and Digital art work for personal use. Some engineering application will be utilized with this PC like small components combined to the equivalent of the size of a motorcycle or car. As size reference and part count. If you tell me just to get the best of everything I don't need, I will just ignore your post.

Hey everyone Tech Newbie here, So a couple of weeks back I bought a premium laptop from Dell called the Dell Inspiron 15 7501 and I bought it for my uni's mechanical engineering program. Having in mind the 3d modeling software I'll be dealing with throughout the course, the specifications and build quality seemed to be in line with what I needed. The specifications of the laptop are as follows:- 1) 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores) 2) NVIDIA® GeForce GTX® 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6 3) 16GB (8GB onboard + 8GBx1 SODIMM), DDR4, 2933MHz 4) 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive Coming to the quality of the laptop, the laptop boasts a full aluminum build along with really good thermal management with multiple vents allowing better airflow. Having briefly described the laptop, there was a certain doubt which arose on the laptop's GPU on whether it was enough to run 3d modeling software like CAD, Solidworks which as most of you already know are used widely in the mechanical engineering program. So I searched it up on many places to see on whether this particular GPU was powerful enough to run this software and I couldn't find satisfying answers (mixed review) as in some people suggest the RTX lineup cause of its ray-tracing feature, while others suggest the Quadro lineup and finally a few who agree with it stating that it worked for them even with an old I5 and an Nvidia 940mx laptops. I'm anxious about it and if it doesn't fully support this 3d modeling software I seriously don't see the need of having this GPU. I'm seriously not willing to game over it cause I want the laptop to be future proof. And yeh just to be clear I won't be using this software like every day but time to time practicals and I don't think it's gonna be high-end modeling so yeh please help this poor soul here. And if you wonder why I didn't go with the RTX GPUs with then the answer is simple you can see that the specs are almost the same as the Dell XPS 15 (India) with the XPS being one of the best lineups of dell for all-round purpose and thus this laptop seemed to be perfect for what I need for college.

Hi, I'm trying to build a PC (preferably a mini ITX) for my 3D modeling and rendering, the PC would be mainly used for that purpose. My budget is around $1200 but would limit myself at $1500. I have not a lot of knowledge in the PC world but I need to get one since I have to use Solidworks. These are some parts I have found just exploring around and looking at different reviews etc. CPU: Intel i7 8700k GPU: Nvidia quadro p2000 Motherboard: Gibabyte z390 I Aorus pro wifi Mini ITX Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32gb (2 x 16) DDR4-3000 Storage: Western Digital blue 1TB m.2-2280 SSD Case: NZXT H1 (would include power supply and CPU cooler) According to PCPARTPICKER price is $1425 I have mainly based my choices from Javelin Tech Solidworks hardware recommendations (Here), would like any advice or parts or anything I can change to the parts list making sure that everything is comparable and will work together perfectly. Anything to keep the performance but lower cost would be amazing.

Hi guys, I’ve been planning to build my second computer for a couple months now and was trying to find tutorials on how to model a PC build using Blender, SolidWorks, or any other software, as I’m planning on building a dark purple-pink themed “outer space” theme build (similar to Nebula, Jayztwocents’ personal build). I've got a parts list in mind but was hoping I could create a mock-up before actually buying any parts to see how things turned out, and make any necessary modifications. If anyone knows where I can find some videos, forums, or other information, or even have parts suggestions to match my theme that would we awesome. Thanks

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, familiar with the content of Linus. I'm an mechanical engineer in Holland and have a lot of experience with solidworks and Inventor. Looking at all the game pc builds I started to make some plans of making one for myself to replace my old crappy laptop. Although I also want to be able to do some 3d modeling on it. Now in the experience I have the most parametric cad programs can only run calculations on 1 core (because solving a model happens sequential). I have recently worked on a pc that was equipped with a p2000 gpu, but when the model was struggling the gpu had a 3% load. So I thought, is a gpu a requirement for 3d work? Do I need as many cores as possible for CAD work? Hope the community can enlighten me a bit on the requirements for CAD programs as I don't see the use for many cores and gpu power ( except when rendering images of course) Aldo never saw a video about cad stations which I would like to see ;) Thanks in advance,

Hey guys, So I am trying to run Solidworks on my 2016 Razer blade laptop and I am running into some strange performance issues. When I started a new part it takes several minutes for the screen to load the part view, then when it is finally loaded all of the tools are extremely sluggish, sometimes lagging by a full second. I have tried changing some of the 3D graphics settings through the Nvidia control panel to make sure SolidWorks is using the 970m. However, this still didn't work. Has anyone else had issues with this?

Ok, I have been a huge engineering nerd for quite a while. Recently after some hard work I had achieved my CSWA certification for Solidworks, an engineering program. I am a freshman in highschool and am the very first to have ever achieved their CSWA certification in the history of my school and most of the country. Is anyone experienced in the job market know of any internships or mentoring programs for engineering that I could apply for to help my future?

I am fairly new to PC building. I have never build one before mostly just watched videos. I am considering building my first PC. I need it to be able to function well with programs like SolidWorks, Rhino, Keyshot, and other 3D modeling and rendering programs. As well as being able to handle to odd game here and there. I am not sure with a build like this what is important, memory, cpu, gpu and such what is the most important and where the money should be spent. I want to keep spending as low as possible.

Hi! I just got my 2nd GTX 770 4GB, in part for gaming, but also to speed up rendering in Solidworks Visualize. (Previously Bunkspeed) According to afterburner, the usage is 95+ % on both, however the first card runs at 1254mhz (normal game speeds) and the second runs at 530... On a 2:30 hour render, I only gained 15 minutes. With Quadro cards, the scaling is supposed to be about 90%, since it uses CUDA, I figured it would scale similarly on the 770's. Is there anything I could try?

Hello, i want your help to build my friend's PC. He want PC for modeling of engineering components using CAD, SolidWorks (Solid Edge) and Eplan programs and too for normal daily usage. He want silent and long time functional PC too. This PC isn't for gaming. My friend have Dell Vostro 420, so we will use his case, if we can (we will must, before buy, remeasure dimension for GPU and CPU cooler). If you think, that it is verry bad case, we can use another new one. My first test is this: https://www.czc.cz/3156mop300hnu9s9cv8k048u8a/seznam (cca 1100$) - sorry for link from czc.cz, but i'm from Czech Republic, and this website has, for me, the best list. 1, I dont know lots of about GPU. Its better use GTX 1060 or RX 480. GTX 1070 or cheap Quadro/FirePro card? 2, About motherboard. I dont know why spend more for motherboard. Can this motherboard adjust FAN control? 3, CPU cooler, will it be enought? I read review for Fera 2, and it was verry well rated. 4, RAM, how many RAM memory need this programs? 5, I dont know, if PSU, HDD and SSD are right choice. Ok sorry for bad english. I dont know these programs verry well so i hope, that you will help me. Thank you for helping ideas!