Advise on buying a new pc

[Uli]

HI,
I am looking to spend 10k on a new pc.
What would the best configuration and price wise be and where shold I buy it from, I dont need a screen all I am talking about is the box.
I would be using autocad on it as well as the odd game and office software.

Help would be apreciated

 

[Drake2007]

What version of AutoCAD are you using at the moment? new PC = new OS being windows 7, there may be a conflict there.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Lots and lots of memory, and a good gfx card. Especially if you want to render viz. In which case a good multicore cpu would also be helpful.
But most important is lots of fast memory.

 

[Uli]

Yes I will be loading civil 3d on it and run windows 7.
Any recomendations of gxf card/motherboard/cpu combination that would be best?

 

[Drake2007]

Start with the motherboard and work up from that base, at that budget you can go
for Intel core i7, DDR3 and at least a 1TB HD, whatever's left spend on the VGA, keep in mind that a good card is better than 2 bad ones in SLI, your PSU spec is determined by what card you put in.

You will have to go 64Bit on Windows 7 to address large amounts of RAM.