New member, advice on pc to buy

[arshavin23]

Hi all, i am currently studying CADD at college and need to purchase an affordable workstation for running Autodesk Inventor 2010 and AutoCAD 2010, i am on a budget of 400-500 pounds and have had trouble finding something suitable the past few days, I have two in mind listed below, although the HP product has integrated graphics which i have heard is not exactly ideal so i was wondering if it was worth getting that and purchasing a graphics card for it if so which one? I am also not sure about the advent pc as i have heard they are unreliable, or if anyone could make any recommendations. Any advice is much appreciated

 

HP Pavilion p6205uk Desktop PC with 20" HP monitor

 

Intel Celeron Dual-Core E3200 processor

(2.4GHz, 1MB Cache)

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit

3GB DDR3 memory

1TB hard drive

Integrated graphics

DVD Rewriter

6x USB ports

 

Advent Centurion CPQ9104 - Desktop PC with 20" LG monitor

 

AMD Phenom X4 9650 Quad-Core processor

(2.3GHz, 2MB Cache)

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit

4GB DDR2 memory

640GB hard drive

512MB ATI Radeon HD4350 graphics

DVD Rewriter

Built-in wireless (802.11b/g)

[ReMark]

In my personal opinion someone running Inventor should stay away from 1) Celeron based systems and 2) any system with an integrated graphics chip (GPU). And DO get as much memory as you can afford. You won't regret it.

[arshavin23]

thanks for the reply remark, do you think the second choice the advent centurion would be a good buy considering its in my price range, thanks

[ReMark]

Given your budgetary limitations the answer to that question would be yes.

[Vent34]

Hi i would recommend with your budget a used quality workstation which can be brought from ebay.lots on there. try a second hand dell precision but please remember to base your decisions around the graphics card and h drive. mem can be aquired seperatly.