Hello,

When I bought Solidworks premium, the company I purchased it from had a hardware recommendation sheet (I'm not super savvy on hardware, I know the components that are needed to make one, but I don't know how to judge components and how well they'll do, really.) and so I picked the one that was about \$1,300.00 (Optiplex 990) because I know certain video cards are better for Solidworks than just a gaming video card and assumed they would have good computer recommendations, I immediately regretted it as I looked on newegg and they were selling the same thing for 800-ish at the time. I've had it for a while and it's awful, it always lags, crashes, etc. In Photoview it takes up to an hour+ sometimes to render the assemblies I have done. I brought Solidworks home and used it on my computer I built in 2009 for \$2,000 and it runs insanely better. The same photoview renders, render within minutes. The hardware now is bound to be cheaper but I just wanted some input on what everyone else thought or if anyone had any recommendations for how I should go about tackling new specs for a computer to build or had maybe a newegg list of a good build for a decent price. (Since my old build was \$2,000 in 2009 I was hoping for maybe spending \$1,000-\$1,500 for a similar build)