we are not a tool shop we are the mould maintenance group of 5 tool makers over three shifts doing design changes and repairs, making robot end of arm and assembly jigs for automotive plastic injection shop. we are the only ones in the building who I believe have any sort of a workstation build. there are probably a hundred pcs in this place. since we don't make a living with these machines directly that's why I need to justify what I am asking them. and from my experience with forums the benchmark threads only really have higher end pcs not run of the mill average builds. its politics everybody, politics I need to show them some thing and have them draw MY conclusion. if I tell them what to do I will probably not get what I am looking for.

So we can run anywhere up to 200 mb files and 3D milling is all we do. The newsest PC we have has and radeon 7000 series and an i7 3770 and It craped out calculating a tool path to cut a 5/16 bead around the perimeter of the die one of the guys had to go back and divide up the program to generate the tool path. This is what I don't want to happen with the new build.

I will get some average file sizes when I get in to work tonight. If I can I will try and run the benchmark to show you what our current rigs do or maybe can't

These guys are not going to build a PC. They can, but they don't need to they are going to buy from Dell. I just need to be able to justify the cost. Any one running a rig without i7 and a sub par GPU. What kinda problems do you have. I am hoping to get enough info in this thread that I can just send them the link and they can read for them selves. they don't have the time to do all the research. I am doing this on my own time so we don't get stuck with a build that is only going get us up and running but then hold us back in the long run.

This is not that helpful sorry. Not all i7 chips are equal I am looking for best price to performance ratio. 4790 ??? Money is not the obstical it is justification. Same goes for GPU mid range that will get it done and not struggle but not over the top. Nvidia quadro ???

the mater cam specs say i7 which to me is very vague since there are ALOT of them to choose from.

hello every one my work is building a new rig for mastercam 9 and I would like some recommendations for a mid range cpu and gpu they use dell for buying pc