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RBRobyn Beeching08/12/2016

We are looking into a new desktop for our shop.  We use Solidworks for designing boats and smaller projects.  We are hoping to stay around the $5,000CAD or less while still getting a computer where we won’t have issues running the program for the next few years.  The only other important program we would run on the desktop is Rhino.  I did a quick build through the ‘PCCZone’ website and was wondering how well the following would do for performance and what changes I should look at making:

Professional Workstation / Intel® Xeon E5

CPU

2 x Intel Broadwell-EP Xeon E5-1650 v4 3.6GHz LGA2011-v3 Processor BX80660E51650V4 1585.54$

Motherboard

1 x Asus Z10PE-D16 XEON LGA2011-v3 DDR4 Motherboard EEB 538.95$

Memory

1 x Crucial 16GB DDR4 2133MHz ECC UDIMM Server Memory CT16G4WFD8213 138.95$

Primary Hard Disk

1 x Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SATA 6.0 SSD MZ-75E1T0B/AM 420.95$

Secondary Hard Disk

1 x Western Digital Red NAS 6TB SATA6.0 3.5" HDD WD60EFRX 328.95$

Video Card

1 x PNY NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4GB DDR5 Video Card VCQK4200-PB 1098.95$

Audio Card

1 x Asus XONAR DGX 5.1Channel Gaming Sound Card 58.95$

Optical Drive

1 x Pioneer BDR-209DBK 16x Internal BD/DVD/CD SATA Optical Drive 94.95$

Cooling

2 x Intel BXSTS200C Thermal Solution for XEON E5 LGA2011 115.90$

Power Supply

1 x Corsair AX860 860W Modular 80PLUS Platinum Power Supply CP-9020044-NA 250.95$

Case

1 x Fractal Design DEFINE XL R2 BLACK PEARL Full Tower Case FD-CA-DEF-XL-R2-BL 162.95$

Thanks in advance for any help!