Civil 3d Machine

[Anonymous]

I am looking for specs for our new wiz bang cad machines.  My only problem is that I work for county government so we either get wiz or bang but not both.  We only upgrade our computers every 4 years and every 2nd version of civil so we will finally be going to 2014 64 bit. Yehaw!!!

Any thought on a 8 out of 10 machine?  That will satisfy both our survey and design? 

Jim Anderson

Volusia County Public Works

[AllenJessup]

Can you share your approximate budget per machine?

Allen Jessup

Rockland County Highway Department

[rkmcswain]

We get the following equipped boxes custom built for us for ±2k

i7-4770 - 3.50GHz
32GB Ram
Nvidia Quadro 2000
125GB SSD (+ a 10k, 500GB std HDD)
Win7-x64

We run C3D (2013 & 2014) and they do everything we ask them to do with no complaints.

[Anonymous]

I wish I knew.  My boss won't give me an answer.  I guess he just want's to hand IT what we want.  I know it's backwards but what can I say.

-Jim

[Anonymous]

Thanks Mark

I will put that as one on my list.  I really wish I knew what my budget was.  I guess I will wish and let IT price it out.

-Jim

[AllenJessup]

I just got a Dell T3160 Workstation a couple of months ago for $3,242-

Xeon 3.7 GHz Turbo Quad Core
32 GB 1866MHz DDR3 RAM
3 GB Nvidia Quadro K4000
512 GB SATA SSD

500 GB Serial ATA 2,200 RPM Hard Drive

8X DVD+/- RW Drive
Media Card Reader
Win 7 Pro - 64 bit

No keyboard, mouse, speakers or monitor. I had all that already.

Allen

[neilyj666]

It may be helpful to know what type of work you expect to be doing with Civil 3D e.g. miles and miles of multilane road corridors, residential developments flood studies, simple gradings etc etc etc

Do you produce high quality rendered images or just printed plan sets or do you use any of the 3D functionality e.g. DRIVE as these are graphics hungry workflows?

[Anonymous]

I am mostly doing 3 to 4 miles of multi lane corridors with 3 or 4 major intersections and fairly simple grading.  Just your typical run of the mill county road improvement stuff.  We tend to let out sourcethe good stuff.  All we really do is produce roadway sets using the Florida DOT template. 

-Jim

[Anonymous]

Thanks Allen

I will also add that to the list.

-Jim