PC build for (autocad and simulink ... etc)

AK169

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hello
my friend has an old pc , i5 first gen + HDD
and these programs aren't running smoothly
because I don't know what these programs require
I'm not sure if he needs an SSD, or a new CPU ? or new CPU + SSD + decent GPU (basically a new PC) ?
 

whm1974

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for Autocad and Simulink I would build new PC with an SSD and HDD. What is the budget for this? At the lower end I would be looking at the Ryzen 1700, at the higher end the Intel HEDT or Xeon with lots of memory depending on his workload.
 

AK169

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budget is around 700$ for everything
the thing is
I would love to know what matters the most for these softwares ?
CPU, GPU, SSD
which one is important which one is not
 

whm1974

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budget is around 700$ for everything
the thing is
I would love to know what matters the most for these softwares ?
CPU, GPU, SSD
which one is important which one is not
$700 is kind of low for an Autcad and Simulink machine. Off hand I'll say both the CPU and an SSD as well.
 
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https://knowledge.autodesk.com/supp...les/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-2018.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matl...aphics.html?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com

System requirements for AutoCAD and Simulink are actually pretty lightweight.

I'd upgrade to an SSD anyway, but I'd really like to take a look in the Resource Monitor and Event Viewer, and see if anything else is going on while you use AutoCAD that would make it be chuggy.

I mean, it used to work okay, right? Did you do some software upgrades that changed that?
 

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https://knowledge.autodesk.com/supp...les/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-2018.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matl...aphics.html?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com

System requirements for AutoCAD and Simulink are actually pretty lightweight.

I'd upgrade to an SSD anyway, but I'd really like to take a look in the Resource Monitor and Event Viewer, and see if anything else is going on while you use AutoCAD that would make it be chuggy.

I mean, it used to work okay, right? Did you do some software upgrades that changed that?
Doesn't that depend on the user's workload? I knew that the system requirements for both applications to run were not that high, but I know that user's data files for those programs will get fairly large.
 
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Doesn't that depend on the user's workload? I knew that the system requirements for both applications to run were not that high, but I know that user's data files for those programs will get fairly large.

Each possibility presents different problems/solutions.

If there's a storage bottleneck that's causing "chugging" - maybe some annoying Windows Update activity or a BitTorrent client, then an SSD upgrade will be adequate. If the user is analyzing huge datasets, the likely best option is a dedicated server with eleventy-seven cores to offload to. (Off-lease rack mount hardware.) If they're writing mediocre matlab code that's inefficient by design, nothing will help. Etc.

"Aren't running smoothly" isn't sufficient information.
 

whm1974

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Thanks for clearing that up. Now I'm a guy who goes by "it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Given that CPU wise, computers are lasting longer than they used to, it makes sense to make to go a little higher end on hardware. Of course that said the user should get what he can afford.