Buying a New Computer

[cakewalk2]

We're thinking of getting a new machine.

We currently run ACAD LT 2007 but are thinking of getting Revit soon, or upgrading to a newer version of AutoCad.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to great machines that these would run well on?

(Or machines that would stink?)

Thanks!

[dgorsman]

Amost any modern computer will run well.  You'll get best performance-per-dollar going with what would be considered a mid-level gaming rig - not an overclocked, water-cooled monstrosity, but not a web-browsing, movie-watching receptionists box either.  Just somewhere in the middle.  Don't dump all the budget on one part (e.g. dual 18-core Xeon processors with only 8 GB RAM, or a $10k Quadro video card in a 1.6 GHz i3 box), get a "good enough" of each part, with everything about the same quality.  Don't get led down the road of multiple Crossfire/SLI video cards, large numbers of processing cores, and so on - many of these don't apply here.

And for Boole's sake - check the system requirements of your software *before* purchasing hardware and OS.  If it doesn't say it supports Windows 10 (or 8.1, or Vista, or ...) make sure you have an option to downgrade/upgrade to a supported operating system.