i5-8400 enough for solidworks?

[viniciuscom]

I was planing to build a PC to run engineering programs, like solidworks and autocad, as well as some light gaming

 

Is the i5-8400 with 1050Ti a good enough combo?

[LukeSavenije]

for some light cad work? it will be fine. I've seen people at school trying it on a 4005u and it would still run (with crashes, but still)

[Tz000]

1 minute ago, viniciuscom said:

I was planing to build a PC to run engineering programs, like solidworks and autocad, as well as some light gaming

 

Is the i5-8400 with 1050Ti a good enough combo?

It will be more than fine my father is a mechanical engineer and he has used both those programs on his 4 core xeon and 500mb quadro gpu if you are building the PC from scratch it couldn't hurt to maybe go with a 6 or 8 core Ryzen processor to give you a little more freedom with the computer it would probably cost about the same and you could go with a B350 mobo to save some money.

[viniciuscom]

Guess i'll be fine then haha

Thanks!

[RAM555789]

I haven't touched CAD, but there a good combo for gaming at 1080p without causing any major bottlenecks.

[yaya1]

LTT actually did a video on this, although it rather compares professional-grade hardware with "mainstream" hardware than it does only feature the latter, if I recall correctly...  
 

 

[EspinalAndres]

I worked on solidworks with an i3 3240 and 4 gb of ram at 1600 with a GT1030, so yes.