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Mayhemster
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HI all,

 

I want to upgrade my office PCs. We currently have a few power users and their computers are running a bit slow.

 

I was looking at possibly going with AMD for the APUs to handel sketchut files, but I'm not sure what the best way to go is in the current market.

 

They use a lot of Excel and PDF documents. We do construction, so these are large complex PDFs with many layers/pages.

 

We also work with many web pages open at once - 10-15 (Chrome and Firefox)

 

Occasionally we will need to look at the architects CADs in sketch up, which to my knowledge dose not leverage multi-threading.

 

The goal would be to build a system that dosen't need a video card, so I can put that budget twards a better CPU/APU

 

Thanks!

 

 

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How much is the budget?

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good amount a ram and prob an APU

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HI all,

 

I want to upgrade my office PCs. We currently have a few power users and their computers are running a bit slow.

 

I was looking at possibly going with AMD for the APUs to handel sketchut files, but I'm not sure what the best way to go is in the current market.

 

They use a lot of Excel and PDF documents. We do construction, so these are large complex PDFs with many layers/pages.

 

We also work with many web pages open at once - 10-15 (Chrome and Firefox)

 

Occasionally we will need to look at the architects CADs in sketch up, which to my knowledge dose not leverage multi-threading.

 

The goal would be to build a system that dosen't need a video card, so I can put that budget twards a better CPU/APU

 

Thanks!

Budget?

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Depending on whether you can afford it or not, I'd recommend an entry level core i5 with 8gb of ram and most importantly an ssd. If that is too expensive, I'd step down the cpu to a core i3 but try to keep the 8gb of ram and ssd if possible. I wouldn't recommend an APU for single threaded workloads like sketchup, simply because their ipc is significantly lower than that of an i3 or i5. Do not skimp on the psu, in an office I imagine reliability is key - this one isn't expensive but is very reliable.

 

Feel free to ask more questions @Mayhemster and please follow your topics ;)

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Depending on whether you can afford it or not, I'd recommend an entry level core i5 with 8gb of ram and most importantly an ssd. If that is too expensive, I'd step down the cpu to a core i3 but try to keep the 8gb of ram and ssd if possible. I wouldn't recommend an APU for single threaded workloads like sketchup, simply because their ipc is significantly lower than that of an i3 or i5. Do not skimp on the psu, in an office I imagine reliability is key - this one isn't expensive but is very reliable.

 

Feel free to ask more questions @Mayhemster and please follow your topics ;)

Thanks @Sauron That's what I was looking at myself. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't wasting budget on something silly.

 

Cheers

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A10-7870K would do really nice for budget PCs

 

You should couple that with high speed memory to reap the benefits of the iGPU.

An 8GB memory kit will do.

 

The whole system would be inexpensive.

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How I plan my builds -

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For me I start with the "There's no way I'm not gonna spend $1,000 on a system."

Followed by the "Wow I need to buy the OS for a $100!?"

Then "Let's start with the 'best budget GPU' and 'best budget CPU' that actually fits what I think is my budget."

Realizing my budget is a lot less, I work my way to "I think these new games will run on a cheap ass CPU."

Then end with "The new parts launching next year is probably gonna be better and faster for the same price so I'll just buy next year."

 

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