I am building a PC for a buddy who is in school for architecture, CAD, and 3D modeling. I am spec'ing out an Intel Quad-Core and an AMD Quad-Core system for him to do this stuff at home. The PC will be Vista 64 with 8GB DDR2.
My question is around disk. I am assuming that some of these programs require high performance disk or seperate scratch disks for max performance. I know that photoshop, though unrelated to CAD, gets major performance boosts if you can assign a scratch disk pool to it seperate from the disk where the application and OS resides.
Anyone have experience with these types programs? What should I do for disk? How about a video card recommendation as well while you are at it!
I was thinking of doing this...
OS/Application Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 250GB 16MB Cache
Data/Scratch Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 500GB 32MB Cache