No Game, Just CAD

[bindi_raditya]

Hi guys,

 

My office usually use CAD, and the guy from Dell recommend us to buy PC with quadro.

It sounds very expensive. Our office budget is below $1000 (with monitor and peripherals), and we are planning to buy up to 10 PC.

I watched linus video in holy shit ep.9, about quadro being compared with GTX titan X. It shows that quadro is overpriced somehow.

 

So far I searched by myself, buying graphics card isn't necessary because it's not increasing performance on CAD programs.

I don't want to install graphics card either because maybe it forces our staff to play games during office hour..

 

Any recommendation?

 

Thanks

 

[Skiiwee29]

You can use 980TI's. Probably best bang for the buck right now that would help you out. Quardro's are the best for GPU bound CAD programs, but for a cheaper solution the 980TI will work decently. 

 

If you do install the graphics cards, one way you can block your workers from playing games is to not let them install anything and basically give them read only access to everything so it has to be cleared through proper channels to be installed on the machine. 

[Atmos]

10pcs trying cad work with only a budget of 1000$?

Not gonna happen, 100$ per pc is not enough.

 

Unless you meant 1000$ per pc, and even in that case, a quadro is still a bit too expensive imo for what your getting in that price range.

[PRTI]

12 minutes ago, bindi_raditya said:

Our office budget is below $1000 (with monitor and peripherals), and we are planning to buy up to 10 PC

As @Atmos mentioned what do you mean?

[bindi_raditya]

It's not heavy CAD stuff, just simple one, like house plan, or city planning. The office is drafter for architecture. The income is not that much. We also use old CAD softwares, not the latest. 

 

Just for your info, we are currently using under $500 PC, low end Geforce and i3, and it work just fine. But I don't think it will work until next year.

 

To my office, adding more people is better than adding expensive PC but less people.

[Atmos]

1 minute ago, bindi_raditya said:

It's not heavy CAD stuff, just simple one, like house plan, or city planning. The office is drafter for architecture. The income is not that much. We also use old CAD softwares, not the latest. 

 

Just for your info, we are currently using under $500 PC, low end Geforce and i3, and it work just fine. But I don't think it will work until next year.

 

To my office, adding more people is better than adding expensive PC but less people.

But for your budget, are you using 1000$ for everything?

Or 1000$ per pc you build/buy

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, bindi_raditya said:

It's not heavy CAD stuff, just simple one, like house plan, or city planning. The office is drafter for architecture. The income is not that much. We also use old CAD softwares, not the latest. 

 

Just for your info, we are currently using under $500 PC, low end Geforce and i3, and it work just fine. But I don't think it will work until next year.

 

To my office, adding more people is better than adding expensive PC but less people.

When your buying a dell, your paying for support and certifcations, you can build your own, but it will probably cost more if you have to fix it and couse more down time compared to a dell with onsite(incuded on all precisions).

 

Id just get a few basic dell precisions with i3's or xeon e3's and quadro k620's or k1200's.

[bindi_raditya]

$1000 per PC, including monitor and peripherals.

total budget is up to $12000. It still rough calculation tough.

 

Last year I work in very royal company, they spend like $3000 each PC, but I didn't see the benefit. Dell support is great but I don't think it necessary. you know, if you can buy $1000 PC, you can replace up to 3 times rather than buy 1 $3000 PC upfront.

[mikat]

1 hour ago, legacy99 said:

You can use 980TI's. Probably best bang for the buck right now that would help you out. Quardro's are the best for GPU bound CAD programs, but for a cheaper solution the 980TI will work decently. 

 

If you do install the graphics cards, one way you can block your workers from playing games is to not let them install anything and basically give them read only access to everything so it has to be cleared through proper channels to be installed on the machine. 

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Our office budget is below $1000 (with monitor and peripherals)

I don't think they'll be able to get 980 Tis at that price