Dell or (new)Delli

Gin77

I want to buy a new Dell thats capable of running solidworks but on a 1000euro budget.
Everyone I talk to sounds like there from new delli. I just want to talk to a native english speaker to get my point across.
I'm not a racisist just want to feel comfortable when making a big purchase.

Any ideas on how to speak to an Irish sales person?

Torqay

Capable or certified?

If you want Solidworks certified hardware from Dell, you're looking for a Dell Precision workstation with a quad-core Xeon processor and Quadro or Fire GL/Pro graphics card. And they're well beyond your budget.

Of course, Solidworks may run on any decent consumer-grade CPU and GPU, however, no sales rep will advise you to buy anything that is not officially certified and rightly so.

Lu Tze

Contact solidworks for a list of specs first so you know what to look at when looking at dell.

They only list the professional grade cards on the solidworks website - but they may be able to advise how many processor cores the software can use, whether hyperthreading is useful, typical ram requirements for 3d modelling, whether a ramdisk will speed up modelling/rendering significantly etc.

Find the ideal build ofr you - and reduce to fit in your budget constraints. Other options than dell as well - kompletts range of prebuilt pcs has improved as well.

Gin77

My Quote is as follows
1. 1 Precision T1650: Standard 275W Base
2. 1 Processor: 3rd gen intel core i5-3470(quad core, 3.20GHz Turbo, 6MB w/HD Graphics 2500)
3. 1 Save on 8GB RAM ‘SB only’#
4. 1 Memory: 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non ECC
5. 1 Hard Drive 250GB 3.5 inch Serial ATA (7200Rpm)Hard Drive
6. 1 Raid controller: Integrated SATA controller
7. 1 HDD Config : C1 SATA 3.5 inch Hard Drive
8. 1 Optical drive: 16X DVD+/- RW drive
9. 1 Graphics 512MB Fire Pro 2270 (DMS59) (DMS59 to 2DVI adapter)(ULGA10B)
10. Keyboard, mouse etc…
11. 1 Raid type: No Raid

All for 1100euro
What you think? capable, upgradable in time.. (that was the criteria I asked for)

SickBoy

Gin77 wrote: »

My Quote is as follows
1. 1 Precision T1650: Standard 275W Base
2. 1 Processor: 3rd gen intel core i5-3470(quad core, 3.20GHz Turbo, 6MB w/HD Graphics 2500)
3. 1 Save on 8GB RAM ‘SB only’#
4. 1 Memory: 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non ECC
5. 1 Hard Drive 250GB 3.5 inch Serial ATA (7200Rpm)Hard Drive
6. 1 Raid controller: Integrated SATA controller
7. 1 HDD Config : C1 SATA 3.5 inch Hard Drive
8. 1 Optical drive: 16X DVD+/- RW drive
9. 1 Graphics 512MB Fire Pro 2270 (DMS59) (DMS59 to 2DVI adapter)(ULGA10B)
10. Keyboard, mouse etc…
11. 1 Raid type: No Raid

All for 1100euro
What you think? capable, upgradable in time.. (that was the criteria I asked for)

You'd build a far better system for much cheaper but if it has to be completely certified for SolidWorks then you have to pay the premium.

Gin77

SickBoy wrote: »

You'd build a far better system for much cheaper but if it has to be completely certified for SolidWorks then you have to pay the premium.

Hi Sickboy

It doesn't have to be certified its for personal use, I just want to practice solidworks at home nothing too technical (less than 250 parts in assemblies)

Where should I buy the parts? Would love to build my own.

SickBoy

In that case fill out the template located in this thread and post it here.

You can pickup the i5 CPU and 8gb RAM fairly cheap and the hard drive and graphics card can be beefed up from the Dell spec.
250gb is a bit on the small side and is not even SSD.
A HD7950 or GTX650ti would be fine, doesn't need to be FireGL or Quadro FX.
Some of these GPU favourable rendering application favour things like CUDA so you might get better performance from an nVidia part.

Anyway post the completed template here and loads of people will help you choose something powerful with that budget or something just as powerful as the Dell machine for far below the budget.

Torqay

Gin77 wrote: »

My Quote is as follows
1. 1 Precision T1650: Standard 275W Base
2. 1 Processor: 3rd gen intel core i5-3470(quad core, 3.20GHz Turbo, 6MB w/HD Graphics 2500)
3. 1 Save on 8GB RAM ‘SB only’#
4. 1 Memory: 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non ECC
5. 1 Hard Drive 250GB 3.5 inch Serial ATA (7200Rpm)Hard Drive
6. 1 Raid controller: Integrated SATA controller
7. 1 HDD Config : C1 SATA 3.5 inch Hard Drive
8. 1 Optical drive: 16X DVD+/- RW drive
9. 1 Graphics 512MB Fire Pro 2270 (DMS59) (DMS59 to 2DVI adapter)(ULGA10B)
10. Keyboard, mouse etc…
11. 1 Raid type: No Raid

All for 1100euro
What you think? capable, upgradable in time.. (that was the criteria I asked for)

For £759/€944 you'll get this at PC Specialist:



Or this workstation with Solidworks certified CPU/GPU for £835/ 1,039



OS installation DVD and 3 yr warranty included.

Or build your own.

Laviski

if you can build your own better and cheaper

T-K-O

Hey OP. Part of my old job was purchasing laptops for the guys using solid works.

The soild works website is brilliant. You can input the make / model / graphics card and see how they perform.

Unfortunately it's a Precision type machine you will need and they aint cheap

T-K-O

Link..

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html