New CAD pc 2015

[s3ds]

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/therm...l-and-amd-cpus
Thermaltake CLP0602 BigTyp Revo Intel & AMD Heat Sink Cooler with 12cm Quiet Fan

Are those any good ?

what is a good quiet 120mm case fan ?

[Marcvs]

Get the 512GB Pro, Trust me its worth it for any somewhat professional build - You cant install 3DS MAX + Cinema4d (I assume you are using AutoCAD which is ~40GB IIRC) + Creative Suite on a 256GB Drive and have enough space to work. - As remember you go down to 220GB on the 256gb once partitioned, and it comes out at ~203GB if you use the samsung recommened 10% OP.

3ds max is around 20GB with all the assets.


But tl;dr a 256gb drive will leave you ~50GB free at most once you install applications on it, which means you will have performance degradation.

[Bonebreaker777]

Separate value SSD for the OS and RAID1 for redundancy for the software (enterprise SSDs).

Also, how about ECC? If choosing an affordable server grade board for Intel CPUs (with SAS included) or an AMD board (Opteron,ECC,SAS)?Wouldn't be that feasible?

[s3ds]

I have always used Intel for workstations and AMD for every thing else.
ECC is not much benfit TBH for the main cad program may be ok for autocad
When I have looked before for a board with SAS
They were not worth it.
A good workstation board and a PCI-X ( lol should have used PCIe ) SAS card was cheaper.

Im not sure the Asus Z97 WS would be worth it this time thats why I chose a Z97-C
http://www.ebuyer.com/641011-asus-z9...herboard-z97-c