Building a Pc For fousion 360, am I on the right track

[Anonymous]

I have a Dell Precision M6500, Windows 7 Pro, i5, FirePro M720, used this for AutoCAD 2020 and it worked great, Upgraded to windows 10 so I could try out Fusion 360 but now AutoCAD and Fusion run slower than crap now after I create a couple of solids. Fusion gives me an error message that the graphics card may be slowing me down, was going to update the drivers but there are none for my graphics card for Windows 10.

I thought I would build a cheap desktop and would like your opinion if I am on the right track,here is what I am looking at.

Motherboard:
MSI PRO Series Z370-A PRO Intel 8th Gen LGA 1151 M.2 D-Sub DVI DP Gigabit LAN CFX ATX Motherboard  $179.00
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Z370-PRO-Coffee-Motherboard/dp/B075GN9YC4/?tag=akshatblog198-20

MSI B450M-A Pro Max AMD B450 AM4 Micro ATX DDR4-SDRAM Motherboard $117.00
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-B450M-Micro-DDR4-SDRAM-Motherboard/dp/B07WC8QVCB/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&key...

Processor:
Intel Core i7-8086K Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 5.0 GHz unlocked LGA 1151 300 Series 95W $400.00
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-8086K-Desktop-Processor-unlocked/dp/B07DGDWJ3P

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X $290.00
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-3700X-16-Thread-Processor/dp/B07SXMZLPK

Graphics card:
NVIDIA Quadro M4000 $272.00
https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-Quadro-M4000-Graphics-DisplayPort/dp/B01GD7GHZK

Would appreciate your thoughts or recommendations,

Bruce

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. fast CPU > many cores do not help
2. no Quadro graphics (open GL) but consumer (Direct X)
In terms of graphics, Fusion has comparatively low demands.

Therefore, the choice of graphics can be based on other applications (games and video).

günther

[leowarren34]

Hi @Anonymous,

In terms of CPU -In regards to Intel, I'd be looking at a 10th Gen rather than 8th gen due to the generational improvements (Higher IPC) which will mean the system will be more up to date. The i7-10700K is a little bit cheaper than 8086K (€370 according to PCP Part Picker). It does a couple more cores but it also has the top speeds.

In terms of Motherboard- there's a bit more flexibility - unless you want to overclock your CPU you can stay away from the Z chipset and save a bit unless there's a feature you really want.

GPU: As Guenther has already said there's no point with a Quadro since Fusion doesn't benefit. It is also a Maxwell Gen card which is already at least 2 generations old - You can buy an RTX 2060/2070 and still run it fine. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6YwF7NUSk. Inventor and Fusion are on the same base architecture so the content does apply to Fusion but needless to say, Neil runs the official certification software on Non-Quadro Cards and it still passes. There's also a lot of detail and context so if it's not your thing you can skip parts.

RAM - Not mentioned but you should have 16GB Minimum unless you're working on really small models.

Just a couple of other things - don't forget a CPU cooler since K SKU CPUs do not come with a CPU cooler - Noctua are really good but that's just my thoughts.

[HenryDara]

Depends a little bit on what you plan on doing in my view. If you plan to work on large assemblies, the bottle neck is the Fusion software itself (it gets real slow after about 1000 components, which seems like a lot, but they can add up real fast) Once that happens no CPU or graphics card can help. I often wait 20 minutes for even small edits on large assemblies, on any of my PC's (All far exceed any requirements) They are aware of the problem, and are working on it, but I wouldnt plan on a fix anytime soon.