How to configure PC for gaming, CAD and CAE.

Question

Hi, I wanted to mount a PC component, mainly to work with CAD programs (2D and 3D), CAE and to play games now decently future. Budget not want fanciest over 1000 € including screen, keyboard and mouse, so here the Pc of € 800/850.

I have this configuration, but is the first PC parts and do not know if it would be the most appropriate.

Zalman Z11 Plus

3.5 GHz Intel Core i5-4690 BOX

Gigabyte H97-D3H

MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2GB GDDR5

G.Skill Ripjaws X 8GB PC3-12800 DDR3 1600 CL7

Nox Urano VX 750W PFC

Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB SATA3

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

Anima tacens ACR2

If anything could be improved or you can lose money, comentarmelo.

Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

Hi, I think quite rightly your setup, I would play only a couple of things.

Relatively recently Nox pulled the NX series of power supplies, replacing the VX series. I'll give the NX750 or NX650 and they cost about the same and the latter are a little better.

I changed the graphics card by the R9 280 (or 280x if you get the budget), as they have higher performance / price the nvidia.

 

And most importantly it lacks the pc is, in my opinion, a SSD.

The difference of having an ssd or not, is very large and I recommend having one.

If you do not reach the budget you can do is buy one and not buy any 250GB HDD and when you fall short, you catch a disc

Answer 2

Thank you very much for the reply, the info very helpful.

The graphics card was watching and I could use it: Sapphire Vapor-X 280x R9 Tri-X STD 3GB GDDR5.

Do you have good performance? With nvidia graphics I am most familiar with the performance of each, but amd'm lost. Then it would be nice offset by the processor?

Answer 3

Yes, it has very good performance. To give you an idea, it is a bit higher than the GTX 770 from Nvidia. The downside is that it consumes more than the latter, but I personally prefer higher performance before lower consumption.

Then, as the processor is fine, except that the combination i5 + 280x is designed for gaming than for CAD, 3D and everything. Anyway, if you're not doing very intensive CAD and want to be good all the games of the next few years, I think it's the perfect pc.

However if you think you need more power for CAD and do not care much games, maybe you would be interested i7 AMD + R9 270