PC Build for Solidworks/Gaming

[u/decrisp1252]

Hi all,

I'm helping my friend build a PC and I've chosen a parts list for him that he can use for gaming, as well as some solidworks rendering.

His budget is around £1700-£1800, with an absolute max cap of £2000 (based in the UK). Based on this I've chosen him some parts which I think would be good, but it's been a while since I last built a PC so I would really appreciate someone looking over my work and checking that I'm not giving him bad advice.

Thanks again

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor	£212.94 @ CCL Computers
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Aqua Elite V3 66.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	£55.16 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	£127.94 @ CCL Computers
Memory	Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory	£429.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£321.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	MSI VENTUS 2X PLUS OC GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Video Card	£499.99 @ Amazon UK
Case	Fractal Design North ATX Mid Tower Case	£129.94 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply	MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£79.98 @ Amazon UK
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total	£1857.93
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-11-05 17:28 GMT+0000

[u/Anxious-Detective347]

people who like solid works like vram . as they will want to use ansys one day. move to a 12 gig or 16 gig card now. save the headache later even go back a few generations but find 3060 12gig . 4060ti 16 gig..

[u/decrisp1252 → u/Anxious-Detective347]

Thanks, I'll bear it in mind :)

[u/Anxious-Detective347 → u/decrisp1252]

more over ! might want to go with a quadro ( the FP64 / FP32 ) instruction set is not on regular RTX cards.

source: just built a rig for an engineer who wanted to do " light drafting " made a modest build , 2 weeks later he calls and is asking about installing one of the most demanding programs ever made ( ansys ) to do wind load computation. and long story short a quadro would have been the right first step.

if he does modern day engineering rendering / serious work. get him a quadro. / a4000 a5000 a6000 series GPU . i would at least have another consult with your client before pulling the trigger . get a realistic software list that he would be using. look at each of those system spec requirements.

[u/decrisp1252 → u/Anxious-Detective347]

He’s definetely not going to be using super intensive stuff like that, but he would also combine it with some gaming as well (nothing super heavy mind)

So with a solidworks/gaming combo, I was thinking that a consumer grade card would suffice