[quote=CMBrandon;1600147]What kind of computers does your team use? Did the school buy them or did someone make them? Laptop, desktop? Pics of your lab would be great! I am just really curious to see what all of you have to work with.
We custom build all of our workstations to try and stretch our dollars as far as we can. We try to add at least 2-3 CAD computers each year and repurpose older computers to other areas of the team (business, programming, outreach, etc). All of our computers are owned by the team and not supplied by the school. In order to get the eduction license of SW provided through FIRST you aren't supposed to install it on school owned computers.
Our newest builds that we just completed include:
Case - CoolerMaster Elite 431 ($50)
CPU - Intel Skylake i5-6600k ($250)
Mobo - ASUS Z170-P LGA 1151 ($100)
Ram - 16gb DDR4 2400 ($50 but we got this for free with a processor/mobo combo)
PSU - Thermaltake TR2 500 Watts ($30 on amazon prime day!!!)
Graphics - AMD Firepro W4300 ($250)
HD - 120gb SSD ($60)
Windows 10 pro (we bought OEM windows 7 pro and upgraded to 10 for free)
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We like our CoolerMaster cases as they come with a blue LED fan which is one of our team colors.
We are fortunate to be near an electronics swap meet and were able to get 24" monitors, keyboards, mice and speakers second hand for cheap. Here are some photos of our current CAD setup. The pictures are a little dated as we have added more computers and removed the old box monitors and use only 1080p monitors.
We also have a network server that we run that shares files between all of the computers. However, with GrabCAD being free now it has reduced our dependency on our server and it really only shares our media now a days.
We have also built budget computers that can also run SW great. Now that we have more than 10 CAD computers we invest in more moderate builds that are used more for higher level assembly manipulation.