Budget SolidWorks and Gaming PC - Need Help

[NickPickerWI]

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)

 

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PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i3-9100F 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$89.62 @ Amazon
Motherboard	ASRock B365M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard	$90.99 @ Newegg
Memory	OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$89.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$53.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	PNY GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition Video Card	$149.99 @ B&H
Case	DIYPC Solo-T2-BK Black USB 3.0 ATX Mid Tower Case	$28.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$54.99 @ B&H
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$613.54
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-02 12:57 EST-0500

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PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$139.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	ASRock B450M/AC Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$93.98 @ Newegg
Memory	OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$89.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$53.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.99 @ Newegg
Case	DIYPC Solo-T2-BK Black USB 3.0 ATX Mid Tower Case	$28.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$54.99 @ B&H
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$516.91
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-02 12:58 EST-0500

 

so if he goes intel there's space in a larger budget for a graphics card but the system won't be perfect, just enough to 1080p med/high 60fps in higher end titles and way overkill for rocket league 1080p

 

AMD side gets him into 8 threads and still games well at 1080p if most of the titles are like RL or eSport titles. easily upgradable for future used graphics cards when they have more $ available.