Solidwork Dream machine

Hello,

could you tell me what will be a dream machine if you plan to do big
cosmos flowork analisys,

I'm not working with SW I'm technician in IT my engineer ask me a real
machine cause right now the standard time for him to do an analisys is
about 2-3 days !

I plan to install Win64 and we plan to spend about 10k$ , so please be
honest with a real dream machine.

Thanks

 

You could easily spend 15k, My system is faster than most, but it did
not cost that much. Durring FEA the hard drives are running constantly
because it analyses data blocks individually, then stores them then
comes back and reanalyses them passing the changes from block to block.
The file that you are looking at gets very big while you are analysing
it. I use a multi-processesor server board. With 4 small (147gb) 15k
SCSI in raid for the program and operating system, then two big ide
drives for storage. It has 12gb ram. The drain on speed comes from the
moving those big data blocks. So the sustained data speed of a fast
scsi makes a huge difference. For the modeler I have two nvidia 256mb
video cards with two 21 inch monitors. You could spend alot on the
video cards, but solid works does not have much color depth so I don't
think you would notice the extra money you spent. Projects that I used
to have to run over night, now I do at lunch. Look at xicomputer.com
they have a configuation wizard that should help.

 

Dell Precision 490
WinXP-64
(2) Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz Dual Core CPUs
16GB DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (8 DIMMS)
Quadro FX550 Graphics Card
(2) 160GB 10k rpm SATA Hard Drives in Raid 0 Array
DVD RW

$7282

($6462 with 2.66GHz 5150 CPUs)