NX CAD CAM Workstation Recommendations

[kanoa9321]

Its time to build a new workstation and was looking for recommendations on processors, as I'm a much better Designer and Programmer than computer spec guy.
Do a significant amount of surfacing and large assemblies on the design side and fair amount of surfacing on the CAM side too.

I found this old thread that was pretty helpful, but 4 years in processor world, is a lifetime: https://www.eng-tips.com/threads/hi...parallel-generate-and-multi-threading.469707/

We are partial to Intel, but open to other suggestions, the boss obviously doesn't want to break the bank, but is fully aware that time saved waiting is money saved.

 

[SDETERS]

We have nice HP power houses, We are running, i9-13900k Processor. The Graphics card is where your big hit will be. We are running NVIDIA RTX A5000. Some users have 64 gig of ram, and others that do FEA and ram heavy processes, they have 128gigs. We got a really good deal on these machines. These are a couple of years old now, but run really well.

 

[kanoa9321]

We have nice HP power houses, We are running, i9-13900k Processor. The Graphics card is where your big hit will be. We are running NVIDIA RTX A5000. Some users have 64 gig of ram, and others that do FEA and ram heavy processes, they have 128gigs. We got a really good deal on these machines. These are a couple of years old now, but run really well.

Good to hear, actually had the new version of that same processor at the top of my list (i9-14900k).

 

[cowski]

The Siemens certified system list is a good place to start.

https://support.sw.siemens.com/en-US/product/209349590/knowledge-base/PL8017193

The "NX graphics certification" link will download an Excel file. The Excel file will have a "supported systems" page. You'll probably have to log into Siemens support to access the link.

 

[Rob_N]

We have nice HP power houses, We are running, i9-13900k Processor. The Graphics card is where your big hit will be. We are running NVIDIA RTX A5000. Some users have 64 gig of ram, and others that do FEA and ram heavy processes, they have 128gigs. We got a really good deal on these machines. These are a couple of years old now, but run really well.

I have a similar machine made by a Local computer company that does a lot of DoD work. Same processor, ram and vid. water-cooled processor. the only noise comes from the A5000 and its about the size of a loaf of bread

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