Architectural Designs

What to buy to build a computer for Home Design?

I wanna be able to run Autodesk products like autocad and revit architecture and some 3d modeling programs to do home designs on. I have some ideas of amd quad core processor but not sure about exactly what i need im starting from scratch

Public Comments

1. Any computer better than a 9600 GT video card will run AutoDesk very well.
2. im also building a computer... with the amd x4 965 black edition, looks like a really nice top of the line processor, but what you should be looking at is video cars and ram. heres a chart i made... and for the graphics card its a radeon 4850 Case + supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121099 750 watts 130 dolla -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 gb ram DDR3 Heat spreader 4gb 2(2gb) sdram 240 pin desktop ram 104 dolla -------------------------------------------------- motherboard ASRock M3A785GXH/128M AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Lan yes video:yes (change) audio: yes atx 2600mhz hyper transport Am3 4 240 pin (16gb) pci express x1:1 pci slots: 2 pci express 2.0: 3 power: 240 pin atx 12” by 8.8” 94dolla ------------------------------------------------------------------- hard drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" 7200rpm 3.5” 50 dolla -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hp dvd r  HP Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA 24X Multiformat DVD ... - Retail  130ms dvd 16x cd8x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140042&cm_re=internal_dvd-_-27-140-042-_-Product 5.25” sata 30dolla --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727&cm_re=adm_phenom_x4-_-19-103-727-_-Product Quad core, 3.4 ghz 4000mhz am3 189 dolla
3. your going to need a good processor, and a decent video card. those are the two biggest components. might want a dual core so the autocad, inventor, or whatever your using will run smoothly. however, if you plan to multitask get quad core. there are a ton of manuals online but pretty much u need a case a power supply (prolly like 500 watts) motherboard processor (buy a mobo and cpu bundle, makes life easy) ram video card dvd drive and that's really about it. oh.. ethernet card if the mobo doesnt have one.
4. check out this link http://www.circuitcity.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=31&name=Barebone-Kits&cm_sp=Header-_-PAR-_-CatID_31 They give you all the parts but you have to build it your self. i would recomend this to you http://www.circuitcity.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3718407&CatId=332