Looking for workstations.

[Jupiter21]

We are a company and we are looking for workstations, about 20 of them(no, building ourselves isn't really an option). We are just using SOLIDWORKS (not anything heavy) and edgecam(can program for CNCs not very demanding)

Our current specs are:

Intel Core i7-10700

Nvidia Quadro P2200

16gb of ram(DDR3)

And a 1080p monitor

And a boot ssd/storage.

 

I am not really into computers(tho I'm the best here) and it would be quite good as a all in one. Please give some recommendations. Thanks!

 

[Jupiter21]

I am sorry, this post should be on another sub.

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 minutes ago, Jupiter21 said:

We are a company and we are looking for workstations, about 20 of them(no, building ourselves isn't really an option). We are just using SOLIDWORKS (not anything heavy) and edgecam(can program for CNCs not very demanding)

Our current specs are:

Intel Core i7-10700

Nvidia Quadro P2200

16gb of ram(DDR3)

And a 1080p monitor

And a boot ssd/storage.

 

I am not really into computers(tho I'm the best here) and it would be quite good as a all in one. Please give some recommendations. Thanks!

 

Do you need cpu power or gpu power?

If you need cpu power, single thread or multithread?

And for the gpu fp32 (float) or fp64 (double precision) performance?

 

Btw you might be able to buy some deccomissioned servers or workstations and upgrade the cpu gpu and ram, maybe psu if you do a 2 or 3 way tesla k10 or k80 setup

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, Jupiter21 said:

I am sorry, this post should be on another sub.

 

Oh thats fine the mods will move this thread for you, just wait awhile and itll eventually be moved

[NelizMastr]

10 minutes ago, Jupiter21 said:

We are a company and we are looking for workstations, about 20 of them(no, building ourselves isn't really an option). We are just using SOLIDWORKS (not anything heavy) and edgecam(can program for CNCs not very demanding)

Our current specs are:

Intel Core i7-10700

Nvidia Quadro P2200

16gb of ram(DDR3)

And a 1080p monitor

And a boot ssd/storage.

 

I am not really into computers(tho I'm the best here) and it would be quite good as a all in one. Please give some recommendations. Thanks!

 

An i7-10700 will use DDR4 memory. These specs are pretty reasonable for an entry level workstation although 32GB really is recommended

when working with solidworks. It's more demanding than you might think.

 

There are OEMs that have different options in this segment.

 

HP has the Z2 G5

Dell has the Precision 3650 and 5820 series

Lenovo has the P340 and P520

 

Maybe contact any of these parties and see if they can give you a good price on 20 units.

[Jupiter21]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Do you need cpu power or gpu power?

If you need cpu power, single thread or multithread?

And for the gpu fp32 (float) or fp64 (double precision) performance?

 

Btw you might be able to buy some deccomissioned servers or workstations and upgrade the cpu gpu and ram, maybe psu if you do a 2 or 3 way tesla k10 or k80 setup

Mainly gpu, but the current hardware is better than we acually need.

Solidworks can use up to 4 cores so a average cpu is enough.

I have no idea what fp32/64 is but a 1070 is more than enough.

Used hardware, Buying it and upgrading it is a pain when you need 20.

I was thinking of imac-like machines(should run windows)

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

5 minutes ago, Jupiter21 said:

Mainly gpu, but the current hardware is better than we acually need.

Solidworks can use up to 4 cores so a average cpu is enough.

I have no idea what fp32/64 is but a 1070 is more than enough.

Used hardware, Buying it and upgrading it is a pain when you need 20.

I was thinking of imac-like machines(should run windows)

 

So a gpu upgrade is needed?

 

Ok does anyone know what op actually needs in terms of their gpu?

 

Cause nvidia teslas have high fp64 (double precision floating point) performance, not sure what the perks of quadro are, and mainstream consumer cards have high fp32 (regular floating point) performance

 

Btw can you show a pic of a workstation but with the sidepanel off?

Cause tesla gpus are compute gpus and dont have any video output unless you hack it to passthrough output to another gpu

[Jupiter21]

2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

An i7-10700 will use DDR4 memory. These specs are pretty reasonable for an entry level workstation although 32GB really is recommended

when working with solidworks. It's more demanding than you might think.

 

There are OEMs that have different options in this segment.

 

HP has the Z2 G5

Dell has the Precision 3650 and 5820 series

Lenovo has the P340 and P520

 

Maybe contact any of these parties and see if they can give you a good price on 20 units.

The specs i posted are over what we need...

So a bad gaming pc is enough.

I will look at the oems tho.

The price should really be under 1-2k usd(tho i dont know how much we can spend)

[Helpful Tech Witch]

24 minutes ago, Jupiter21 said:

Intel Core i7-10700

 

This cpu does not work with ddr3, is the ram ddr4?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, Jupiter21 said:

The specs i posted are over what we need...

So a bad gaming pc is enough.

I will look at the oems tho.

The price should really be under 1-2k usd(tho i dont know how much we can spend)

I think your workstations just need a gpu upgrade and maybe a psu upgrade not some other pos thats gonna have the same gpu or an even worse gpu than your current quadro

[NelizMastr]

1 minute ago, Jupiter21 said:

The specs i posted are over what we need...

So a bad gaming pc is enough.

I will look at the oems tho.

The price should really be under 1-2k usd(tho i dont know how much we can spend)

The specs you listed are easily 1k a piece for just the tower, peripherals excluded.

[Jupiter21]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

This cpu does not work with ddr3, is the ram ddr4?

Well rigth now i am posting on that cpu. soo yeah it is indeed

[Jupiter21]

2 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I think your workstations just need a gpu upgrade and maybe a psu upgrade not some other pos thats gonna have the same gpu or an even worse gpu than your current quadro

We really dont need a powerful machine.

The specs i listed is a lot more than what we acually need.

I think a workstation with a quadro p2000 and 16gb ram is good

But cpu and others? i dont know

 

[WkdPaul]

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[Somerandomtechyboi]

11 minutes ago, Jupiter21 said:

We really dont need a powerful machine.

The specs i listed is a lot more than what we acually need.

I think a workstation with a quadro p2000 and 16gb ram is good

But cpu and others? i dont know

 

Quadro p2000 is even weaker than your current graphics card

[Jupiter21]

4 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Quadro p2000 is even weaker than your current graphics card

We have a system with quadro p2000 and its, well... same.we really dont need much power