Hey guys...this is my first post. I am interested in building my own computer. The main purpose of this computer will be 3D Solid Modelling software such as Catia, Solid Works, Inventor and AutoCad, with some gaming as well such as Doom3, etc... . I'm wondering if anyone could help me out with picking some components, stuff like AMD Athlon 64 vs. P4 3.0 or the Video Card choices like, AGP 8X vs. PCI Express, ATI Radeon X600 Pro vs. the NVIDIA GForce 6600.
This is what I've speced out
AMD Athlon 64 2800
MotherBoard (can't remember, I'm at work right now info is at home)
1GB Dual Channel DDR
NVIDIA GForce 6600 (not GT) PCI Express 256 MB
Can anyone help me out, does look like a good system bang for buck. I do not want to spend alot of money (approx $1000 CDN for whole system w/o monitor).
Thanks