[dolphy]

Good day everyone!

I am building up workstation for simulations softwares. I am the beginner in this area and so this workstation will be used generally to learn simulation softwares. I am planning to run ANSYS, SolidWorks, COMSOL on this machine.

I am planning to spend as much as $2k. I also have pretty good discount with HP and Lenovo. It looks like that the workstation that they suggest for simulations has CPU Xeon Silver, but for the money I am planing to spend I only will be able to purchase a base line which is 1CPU 2.1 GHz - 8 cores. In the same price range I can purchase I-7 with much higher clock speed.

Which way would you suggest to go? Should I be looking at buying Xeon since it will give me some room for upgrade in the future (adding additional CPU, ECC RAM). Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks