[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by red-beard

So, I priced up an Intel NUC. Top of the line unit with an 6th gen i7, 3.5GHZ, with a 512GB M2 SSD, 32GB of 2133MHZ RAM, 31.5 4K display and Windows 10 Pro:

$1478.59

If I were to build an "ultimate" multi display drafting unit, with the 3rd from the top Intel CPU, top mother board, multiple video cards top of the line, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSB, etc, with 3 31.5 4K displays, I would be under $3K.

And you can do it with "industry standard" pieces that can be easily replaced or changed out if your software needs require it. Our big workstation had dual Nvidia 9800 cards and each card has two cooling fans. We needed to install a new software package for doing 3D mapping and pulled one of the 9800 video cards and replaced it with a Quadro K4200 and bought a 3D monitor with the glasses that the software company recommended. The 4200 is slower at pure graphics calculations but it does the 3D real well. There is not quite enough room to have all three cards on the motherboard with the other cards we have in there.