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Buy now or wait? i7 Question for the experts.

Hey guys,

I need a decent machine for next summer. I'll be running autocad civil3d. At work right now I have a xeon E3-1245 & 8GB of ram, not good enough. I'm looking at the i7-4770 & 32 gb of ddr3. I'll need the mobo to go along, but that's it. I haven't been keeping up with the hardware world--are there big product launches planned in the next 4-5 months that would affect price of this combo (pretty set on an i7)??

Thanks!!
alex

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YMMV

I'd wait as long as possible. If you can get the ram doubled on your work computer you might try that. If the e3-1245 is truly inadequate then I'm not sure you are going to be happy with an i7 4770 either

Autocad 3D loves GPU's. Check the specs on their website for what video cards they recommend. If you have the right video card with their stuff then the CPU isn't nearly as important.

I agree with Harry, what GPU do you have in this rig? That CPU is not that old.
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Hey thanks for the link, aguen.

I did some research on gpus. Came across this article, looks pretty interesting:
»www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articl···ion-164/

I'm a little disappointed to be out another $400 for a new video card haha. As for my gpu at work... it's a Quadro 600. And I think more than anything it's a ram problem, 8GB just isn't enough, but I'm listening to any thoughts about the gpu.

When you are working the machine hard, what does the RAM utilization show in the Task manager > Performance tab, specifically the 'Available' number and the 'Commit (MB)'?
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