Greetings Brothers!
I need help in choosing a system configuration that I will be running Solidworks on
To be used for (Application)
1) High End Rendering and Visualization tools. Photoview 360
2) Lot of Documentation Work (Solidworks Composer)
2) Low End Simulation (in future) (on Solidworks Flow Simulation). As of now very light simulation.
We have been advised a
Option 1:
DELL Workstation T-3630
Processor: XEON E-2124
Memory: 32 GB- 2.40GHz
Storage: 1 TB HDD +256 GB SSD DVD RW
Graphics Card: P4000 with 8 GB DDR5 Ram
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Option 2
Assembled
Processor: i9-9700k
Memory: 32 GB- 3.0GHz
Storage: 1 TB SATA HDD +512 GB M.2 SSD DVD RW
Graphics Card: P4000 with 8 GB DDR5 Ram
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Questions
1) XEON E-2124 vs Core i7-8th Gen.
Which is better for applications I have already listed above. I have max assembly size of under 500 components.
If Core i7 is better should I go for Core i9-9th Gen?
2) Should I go for M.2 or Plain SDD?
Please Answer in points referring to Question 1 and 2.
I already appreciate the people answering.
1) XEON supposed to be more stable and if you use ECC RAM
As you can see i7 will be faster on clock speed. Solidworks is more sensitive on clock speed than number of cores.
If you have task that will need to run overnight, XEON might be a better choice. Might.
My non-xeon could run for days without crash.
2) M2 don't get SATA. I don't think you could choice.
M2 is faster. Check the spec on what they're giving you.
SATA max out around 500MB/s R/W.
M2 get up to 3000MB/s RW. Could be faster.
Now in reality, unless you have really big files or large assembly with 1000s of different parts. You may not see any different.
I don't use visualize or composer. So I don't know how heavy they use the drive.
Simulation do create large temp files.