Recommendation for Dell desktop?

[Jeeper07]

It's that time of year, again......

I'm shopping for a new computer. I was dead set on a laptop (Dell Pro Max 18), but comparing prices I just can't justify it. Especially since the desktop towers are roughly half the price.

I travel across town on ocassion, and I'd love to have my work go with me...... but it's rare honestly. And I'm just geeking out wanting a laptop.

So now, I'm begrudgingly looking at towers again...... 

I realize this is a bit tricky. And everybody has their preferences. But is there a tower you love and recommend? Why does AutoDesk not put their stamp on any computer. Just to say "hey this is a solid choice"? It seems like a partnership that's needed.....

Any way......  anybody care to weigh in?

Thanks,

Drew

[pball]

No specific recommendations, but generally for Inventor you'll want a CPU with the highest single core clock speed. That will make more of a difference than having lots of cores, except for some work flows such as FEA and drawing view updates which can use multiple cores. Inventor outside of certain work flows such as rendering images does not require a high end GPU. So any graphics cards is suitable, though specific needs or other programs might benefit from a better GPU. 32gb of ram is a good starting point and 64gb is good for anything except really large assemblies in the thousands of unique parts and multiple thousands of instances of parts.

[hollypapp65]

Basically anything with 32GB and 1 TB SSD drive.  i5 or i7 CPU.  If you want, cheapest nVidia video card.  Gaming card is ok.

If you can afford more, more RAM first then video card, then CPU.

I believe you could get a laptop.  Gaming laptop is around $2k.  3k with 32GB RAM.

[sam]

Look at Velocity Micro. The HD-80 has been an awsome workstation & we have purchased four of them. Give them a call they will work with you & you are not limited to what the configurator gives you. Get the HD-80 with a gaming GPU card.

Also, look at Digital Storm, I'm currently running a Velox Pro workstation & I am very happy with it. We are a small company, so $$$ is always a deciding factor, but both Velocity Micro & Digital Storm have excellent prices for what you get.