Hey guys, I've been looking around here and found this to be a handy resource for anyone that knows a thing or two about computers but doesn't build 'em for a living. I'm a professional draftsman and my current craptastic eMachine just can't handle ACAD 2007 (That's what I get for buying in a hurry). I'm about to finish a job that will drop 1500$ on me and I plan on building a much better rig. If you guys could take a look at this and tell me what's good, what's bad and what's meh I'd appreciate it. Case COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW MoBo: ASUS M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI Graphix card: EVGA 512-P2-N635-AR GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PSU: ENERMAX Noisetaker II EG495P-VE ATX12V 485W CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache RAM: Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KSRTL 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s I know the PSU is considered at little small these days, but I spent a lot of time looking for something that would completely power the Video card off of one rail so I could avoid the incompatibility issues I've read about with multi 12V rail PSUs. -Crom
Well I'm not professional, but I've been taking CAD at my school for 2 years now, and the computers that ACAD 2007 is running on there have 3.8GHz single core processors ran by some decent Nvidia cards. 1GB Ram. I'm sure the setup you have there will run without any problems.
Thanks for the reply TwiZted. If you're wondering about anything ACAD, be sure to drop by the forums at CADTutor After some further research, I'm upping the MoBo to the M2N-Deluxe edition. The Plus has been getting some rather bad reviews. -Crom
