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Autocad & Rivet workstation

SpittingLlama
By SpittingLlama
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Hello all,

So I'm building a new (micro-atx) workstation for my little sister that is now going to her second year in architecture.
She did her first year with her macbook and I for one went crazy seeing her struggle with that slow thing. I know that the thing was never made for such intensive work. But fuck me it was so slow and sluggish. Reminded me when I was making a high poly car model in 3DsMax on a Dell m1701 (witch was one hell of a laptop 7-8 years ago)

So anyway I put my FreeNAS project on hold and will use that money to give her a decent workstation. (Around 750 Euro's )

So first things first, what programs will she be using:
*Autocad 2014 - 2015 -> As far as I know autocad mainly uses 1 core for most stuff while designing and uses multi-core to render stuff. So single core performance is key here
*Revit 2014-2015 -> Uses multi-core and likes fast ones
*Photoshop cs6 -> multi-core
*Sketch-up -> no idea
 

So this is what I have atm
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/knfYRB

Also... I recently found a post on the forum from a dude that changed his i7 920 with a Xeon X5650 (for 75£ or 90€) and it's OC'ing to about 5Ghz or so... And it's rocking Cinebench like mad.
Now I have a i7 920 (@ 4ghz) myself. SOOO what if I replace that with a Xeon X5650 and give that to my little sister and then buy a new CPU and Mobo for myself?
 

I'm guessing it would blow the Xeon 1231 V3 away?

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(most) xeons dont have integrated graphics, so you'll need a GPU

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The X5650 is stupid expensive (more expensive than the build you have there). If you want a strong 6-core you would do much better grabbing a 5930k.

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(most) xeons dont have integrated graphics, so you'll need a GPU

Indeed, forgot to add it because I already have one.

 

The X5650 is stupid expensive (more expensive than the build you have there). If you want a strong 6-core you would do much better grabbing a 5930k.

Well for 95€ on ebay... not that expensive tbh

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