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Mobin Ali

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Hello, My cousin needs a few computers specifically for his business which is an interior design firm. Heconsulted another guy for his previous computers and he was not happy (they had gaming graphics cards in them lol)
For each PC his budget is about 1500 USD.
This is what I came up with.
CPU: i7 4790 non K, wont be overclocking.
M/B: not sure about mainboard, I wanted your opinions for non Z types.
RAM: 32GB 1600mhz or 2133mhz (which ever is available)
VGA: Fire Pro or Quadra (advice please)
256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
as you have noticed I am not an expert when it comes to interior designing PC's, looking for your input on the whole thing.
Softwares he will be using: Autocad / 3dmax.

Thank you.
 
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He would be able to save a lot money by skipping GPU's and getting CPU's with integrated graphics, like the AMD a- series (eg. A10-6800k). I am unsure if whether this will match his requirements tho.
 
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Well, his work is about using those programs and then start rendering. I believe the issue is with rendering. It probably would take very long with an APU.
I was thinking about the price's. There are many variants of those FirePro's starting from 200USD.
also we could save money on the mothersboard. Im thinking of one which is under 100USD

 
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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/crgkRB

This is a good base line in my opinion. If you want a little more juice upon start and a little more RAM then add an SSD and just re-fix the RAM to 16GB (dual modual).

If you want to colour code each computer per person I can give you a couple of ideas to change up the motherboard/RAM.

I wanted to make these computers look kinda cool too as it's an interior design company.

The monitor would replace 2 normal monitors and I believe is a nicer alternative especially if you decide to go with a curved version, though that is unnecessary.
 
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My only issue at the moment is the workstation card.
lets say we go for:-
intel i7 4790
H97 MotherBoard.
32GB Ram
AMD FirePRo W7000

Would this work or be enough for Autocad / 3dMAX ?
 
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Yeah it's far beyond the requirements for Autocad and 3dMax. It's more a question of whether it's too much juice for what they will be used for. You need someone more experienced with this type of work than me to answer that question tho.
 
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okay, now we are getting somewhere. I know for a fact that the extra 4 threads in the i7 would help out. Do you mean extra juice because of the W7000? should I go for something lower?
 
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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c32Hbv

maybe the XEON route would be more beneficial... MOAR CORESZS!??

The one I chose is fairly equivalent to the 5960X infact they look extremely close together.

The cores will allow users to multi task between different rendering programs. If you really just wanted single core performance just grab A Z97 chip (socket 1150 such as an i7 4790k or i5 4690K) and just overclock it to like 4.7 - 5.0 ghz
 
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-HH- with the 900USD XEON the budget wont match, we are talking about 10 full systems. 15000 USD is the budget give or take. that is why I choose an I7 for more threads than the I5. The XEON is definitely the way to go if we were getting just 1 system though.
 
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