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A family friend wants me to build him a PC for use with Auto-CAD, but I can't really find any well put together benchmarks for the software. Anyone have any experience with choosing hardware for use with it? Not sure how much money he wants to spend on it, definitely not too exorbitant.

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Does it scale well with multiple cores? Guessing a high ammount of VRAM also helps?

For Auto-CAD I'm pretty sure you don't need much VRAM.

 

Also, my dad uses Auto-CAD 2007 (COOL, RIGHT?) with a Core i5 4460, and it uses 2 of the 4 cores. So, I'm pretty sure it'll scale OK.

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Does it scale well with multiple cores? Guessing a high ammount of VRAM also helps?

I think he's trying to tell you its not GPU accelerated

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A family friend wants me to build him a PC for use with Auto-CAD, but I can't really find any well put together benchmarks for the software. Anyone have any experience with choosing hardware for use with it? Not sure how much money he wants to spend on it, definitely not too exorbitant.

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Does it scale well with multiple cores? Guessing a high ammount of VRAM also helps?

 

No. Most of Autocad is mostly single threaded so higher clocked cores do better than more cores (http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Support-for-multi-core-processors-with-AutoCAD.html). That said, there are a few functions that benefit from multi-threading. An i7-6700K or i7-4790K is a good cpu choice for moderate budgets.

 

If the system will not be used for gaming, a workstation gpu would be best. Budget will pretty much decide which Quadro or Firepro is optimal.

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No. Most of Autocad is mostly single threaded so higher clocked cores do better than more cores (http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Support-for-multi-core-processors-with-AutoCAD.html). That said, there are a few functions that benefit from multi-threading. An i7-6700K or i7-4790K is a good cpu choice for moderate budgets.

 

If the system will not be used for gaming, a workstation gpu would be best. Budget will pretty much decide which Quadro or Firepro is optimal.

OK cool, you think it's worth getting the 6700k over the 4790k for DDR4?

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AutoCAD is DirectX based, so basically build it like a decent gaming rig, but make sure you have fast storage (SSD) and additional RAM (12GB or more).

Workstation card is preferable if it's a dedicated machine, but not absolutely necessary IMO.

 

AutoCAD can be an extremely flakey program if you under-resource it, but if your only doing basic stuff you can actually get away with integrated graphics.

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