Recent content by Enthusiast Builder

No problem - and thanks for that insight (about gtx cards working for most of it). I don't know anything about SolidWorks, but tried to help out based on the hardware reqs on the page. Sounds like you have much better knowledge of it so I'll bow out. Happy thanksgiving!

Dasulman - I disagree, only the workstation GPUs are certified for SolidWorks - so you'd have him show up to class with hardware that potentially can't run his software needed? You assumed I didn't consider using a gaming gpu, but I did...

I think you're asking the impossible... First, I don't think people do custom built laptops...the engineering of the small size for parts doesn't yield itself to custom builds. Even if you bought a laptop, and then started to upgrade some parts, you're gonna have an issue... the type of video...

I believe that MoBo has the 754 socket, which dates back to 2003.... I don't think you're going to find CPUs still for sale which fit that socket. At a certain point, you're throwing good money after bad... I think you should start anew.

To confirm - you want to leave the 80 gig drive as the boot drive (with Windows on it), and install a 2nd HDD (the "f:\ drive" or whatever letter) to use for storage, right? EDIT: Ronintexas posted instructions if you want to replace your current 80 gig boot drive with the new HDD, whereas my...

This is what I put together for you... http://pcpartpicker.com/p/b9TdGX Slightly more expensive, but the 4770k is a more powerful processor (despite 6 physical cores), you'll benefit from a copy of windows which actually supports that much RAM, the 760 is a faster GPU, and its all quality...

Ah...does 7 Home Premium support 32 gigs of RAM?

I'll provide a little more colour than USAFRet, though his advice is correct. I don't know how much computer experience you have, so gonna start from the beginning. I mean no insult. Your BIOS is the first piece of software the computer runs, making sure everything is working right and...