Office Computer for AutoCad build advice/help

[Jambrose]

Hello,

The company I work for is currently looking into upgrading our computers in the design team. Our current spec is useless and our budget per PC is around £1,000, any less is obviously better. I have spent many hours researching into processors and GPU's and the official auto-cad spec. However, after all that I am still unable to pin down what is best, if anyone can just smash out a quick spec or at least some tips towards what we need so I can start focusing my research on I would greatly appreciate it. At the moment I'm set on 16GB of RAM and getting 1TB memory and a small SSD but it's the processor and the graphics card I am currently stuck on. All I know is we need a processor better than Intel Xeon E5-1650 @ 3.20GHz as that seems to be our best one and it still struggles greatly with the big CAD files.

Thank you for your time.

 

[mantadog]

if you have a machine with an Intel Xeon E5-1650 and its struggling its possibly not down to the CPU, it may be down to the GPU. That CPU is half way decent even by todays standards and you wont be getting a better one with a budget of less than £1k per system.

What GPU's are you running in your systems at the moment?

This is a very very right idea of what you are looking for. AND it has a slower CPU but its about all you get for 1k.


Case
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Xeon® Quad Core E3-1230V5 (3.4 GHz, 8 GT/s, 8M L3 Cache)
Motherboard
ASUS® E3 PRO GAMING V5 - ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s,
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
AMD FIREPRO™ W5100 PRO GRAPHICS - 4GB, EYEFINITY, CROSSFIRE
1st Hard Disk
120GB Samsung 750 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD BLACK 3.5" WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Price: £1,122.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-skylake-workstation

But by the time you add in a proper case, PSU etc etc it weill be well over budget. You may very well be better off posting a full list of specifications for the machine you are using at the moment and upgrading those machines. By the sounds of it they have some beefy equipment in them but they are perhaps not very well balanced in terms of components. Even if you just post the system with the E5-1650 in it to give a rough idea.