SolidWorks machine

[RasmusDC]

I have a friend, an old toolmaker, who fiddles abit around with his own toolshop with a couple of CNC machines, even though he is hired in my project as a manager..

 

he works in Solidworks2019, on an old "tired" Intel 760 (I5 or I7 i don´t quite know) and a HD5870 and 4GB of ram, it hurts seing that thing run assemblies.

 

he asked me what i would recommend, and normally i would go with a high core count, but ryzen messed up my barometer a bit, i am looking to give him a bit more umpf... but we are not talking threadripper Xeon performance, just an everyday machine. 

 

was thinking this as a budget.

 

Ryzen 5 3600 (non x) 6core 12 threads

B450 MSI with bios Flashback

32GB of ram LPX DDR3200 (don´t quite know if it is to much)

1TB Crucial P1 NVME drive

Nvidia 1660 OC (NON TI)

Fractal Define S (simply because it is cheap)

TX650M PSU

 

would stick with the wraith cooler to save money, or i think i have an older DH14 laying around, could 3d print a AM4 bracket. i don´t really know how much solidworks actually rely´s on the GPU, my office XPS clone (DELL something), has a P1000, but that is WAY slower than that 1660oc, and opening constructions, seems to be working fine.

 

he is to of course design a bit, but also to do CAM

[TrigrH]

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SOLIDWORKS-2019-Quadro-GPU-Performance-1342/

[LukeSavenije]

actually... the p1000 smashes it completely out of the window from what I've seen, because of it's special drivers

 

but nvidia/pny sells them separately as well

[lostboy]

I'd also recommend the P1000, it's a much better card for this. 

 

Aside from that, your build looks amazing. It should be a great build for years to come. 

[RasmusDC]

so you believe a 5530 precision, with a 8850h p1000 quadro LAPTOP is better than this desktop pc, since i am not really that impressed with this machine, don´t do much CAD on it, but it seems slow, and it also has 32GB of ram.