Newbie HP Solidworks Build

[jotill00]

Hi, I am a mechanical engineering student at university and I am starting to outgrow the performance capabilities of my macbook pro for solidworks. As some of you know, solidworks will not run on macOS, so I have resorted to running bootcamp for all my solidworks drawings, parts, and large assemblies. These large assemblies are the main issue. My mac is a 2017 MacBook Pro with a dual core 3.5 Ghz i7, 16 Gb RAM, and integrated graphics, and I think that maybe the graphics card is what is holding me back. I have looked into getting a MSI WS66 with 32Gb RAM, Intel 10th gen i9, and the quadro rtx 3000 graphics card, but that is an expensive setup that I may not be able to get the full quadro performance out of. Could you help me put together a parts list for a reasonable pc purpose built for chewing through large assemblies, simulations, and the like? I know very little about the actual PC building process, like what motherboard, cooling, power supply, and cable management to get. Do you think you can help?

[Drama Lama]

17 minutes ago, jotill00 said:

and the quadro rtx 3000 graphics card

Overpriced, a rtx 2060 super or 2070 ( Super ) will get you the same amount of VRAM and more shader units

 

 

do you need ECC? because the you‘d need a quadro 

Edited September 8, 2020 by Drama Lama

[jotill00]

I’m not sure what ECC is exactly, so I don’t know.

 

Edit: After a quick google search I’m willing to say yes about ECC. Often times Solidworks will not be able to rebuild and if I understand it, it could be useful for cutting down on my design time. I don’t know enough about Solidworks to know if it would be actually useful though.