Pc for architecture

[wolfnot90]

Hello Guys, I'm an architect and I work a lot with 3d modeling and rendering, I spend a lot of time rendering just one image.... I'm looking to buy a new pc my budget is from 1000-1500. at the moment I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, with 16 gb ram, and an i-5 this is very slow so i want something faster.

 

[Obakasama]

Two particular things to address, I think, for others to provide the necessary advice.

(1) What currency?
(2) What software are you using?

 

[wolfnot90]

Two particular things to address, I think, for others to provide the necessary advice.

(1) What currency? US dollars
(2) What software are you using?

I'm using sketchup, revit, autocad and the one that gives me more problem is vray. Thank you

 

[Obakasama]

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Autodesk-AutoCAD-134/Hardware-Recommendations
https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Autodesk-Revit-171/Hardware-Recommendations

Seems a lot of the software is more single core dependent, which would suggest an Intel CPU would be better for such work.

Vray sounds like it can take advantage of CUDA cores (and if I'm not mistaken it's a rendering engine). A mid-high gaming graphics card or a professional graphics card.

For content creation at least 16GB or RAM is recommended; would suggest 32GB (but RAM is just so expensive at time of writing).

SSD as boot drive is advisable with approx. 250GB being a minimum. Get most software installed on the boot drive and get an HDD for storage.

I had hoped those more familiar with PC building would chime in with a build, but for some reason there's little interest. I'm not much of a builder but perhaps something along the lines of the following: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kYkVWD

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor ($178.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B360M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($43.90 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Mini Video Card ($548.99 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($78.50 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($95.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1273.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-02 04:48 EDT-0400

I am hoping those with more knowledge can amend the above for something better for your needs. There is room for more RAM if wanted and perhaps more storage. Not familiar with workstation graphics cards hence the GTX 1080 there.

 

[PdxPetmonster]

It't be smarter to get an actual 3D workstation card versus a gaming card. I went from a GTX770 to a FirePro WX4100 and the difference was pretty noticeable with it having driver settings specific to the CAD software I use. See if you can find a cheap quaddro, assuming the software you use does have support for cuda cores.