Need advice for workstation budget build (~900$) for Solidworks 2018

[BraveVN]

I want to build a 900$ workstation (no monitor) to use with Solidworks 2018, mainly rendering & video editing. Below is the system requirement of Solidworks

Processor: Intel Core i7 or Xeon with high processor speed
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Memory: 24GB or more
Hard Drive: Solid State Drive (SSD), maintaining at least 20GB free space
Graphics Card:
NVIDIA Quadro P600 (entry level), P1000/2000 (mid-range) or P4000 (high-end)
AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 (entry level), WX 4100 (mid-range) or WX 5100 (high-end)

More detail about system requirements of Solidworks 2018 can be found here

According to the suggestion of Solidworks document above: The rebuild process in SOLIDWORKS is inherently linear (parent/child relationship of features) and therefore can only use a single core. and the Single thread CPU benchmarks, I choose i5-8600k for my rig, here's the full list of components, do you think that's good to go ?

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($239.00 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool - GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler ($23.79 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI - B360M MORTAR Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($83.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($144.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY - Quadro P600 2GB Video Card ($169.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake - Versa N21 ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($51.65 @ Newegg)
Total: $886.27

 

[kanewolf]

You didn't meet the minimum RAM. You want a matched 2 DIMM set of 32GB (2x16GB). I would get a 1TB SSD rather than the 500GB and 1TB HDD. Get an MX500 1TB SSD for the same price as your two drives.

 

[ikaz]

You also may want to look at this :
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Why-you-should-use-a-Quadro-video-card-in-Solidworks-2016-751/


you may also want to look into AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 it maybe better than the P600 and only cost about $5 us more than the P600 on amazon right now but has twice the memory as 4GB.

 

[BraveVN]

You didn't meet the minimum RAM. You want a matched 2 DIMM set of 32GB (2x16GB). I would get a 1TB SSD rather than the 500GB and 1TB HDD. Get an MX500 1TB SSD for the same price as your two drives.

32GB RAM is quite expensive these days, that's why I choose 16GB, I think I can upgrade later

btw, their minimum is 8GB

 

[kanewolf]

You didn't meet the minimum RAM. You want a matched 2 DIMM set of 32GB (2x16GB). I would get a 1TB SSD rather than the 500GB and 1TB HDD. Get an MX500 1TB SSD for the same price as your two drives.

32GB RAM is quite expensive these days, that's why I choose 16GB, I think I can upgrade later

btw, their minimum is 8GB

From your own original post "Memory: 24GB or more". You are doing two things that hurt performance/stability IMO. You aren't using all the memory channels the CPU has by using a single DIMM and you may not be able to upgrade in the future without replacing the RAM you have. Mix-and-match RAM is always a gamble.