new home pc for gaming and solidowrks

Screw Intel. Overpriced crap. The new AMD should be insane. I'm running an AMD FX-9590, and it's pretty amazing (with liquid cooling). I wouldn't recommend it though, compared to the newer stuff. It draws more power (220W), and will overheat without proper cooling.

If you go AMD, definitely go with Radeon for GPU. DDR4 is nice, but DDR3 with an AMD is still powerful. It looks like the Ryzen does finally support DDR4 though, so it's probably worth it if you go with a Ryzen.

If you really want top of the line, go with a PCI-E SSD, not a standard SATA SSD.

I haven't had a board with onboard GPU in, well, since the first computer that I ever bought (not built). If you're building there's no point in worrying about onboard GPU, when you're going to be putting in a monster GPU anyways. The only time you should want a CPU/GPU (at least with current technology) is for a mobile device, or where power consumption is an issue.

If you're looking at a regular 125W AMD CPU, a full water cooling system is unnecessary (unless you are building a ridiculous system). My 220W CPU is using only a CPU waterblock and it's been more than enough.

Other than the power draw, I would highly recommend my CPU. You can get basically the same chip, just not supercharged, in the 8350. Which is still an "8 core" (yeah, not physical 8 core) chip, just running at 4.0 Ghz instead of 4.7. And that puts it back down to a 125W chip, for $130. So, it's last gen, but definitely powerful (although, reading reviews just now, it looks like liquid cooling is still recommended).

But, going up to the $200 range you can get a Ryzen 5 1600 6-core, and that would be more powerful, faster, run cooler, and allow for DDR4. (And not require a PSU with extra 8 pin for the CPU... lol).

Also, AMD is better than intel, until you get up into the extremely ridiculous zone, for $1000+. I might get to take that back. It looks like the new Ryzen Threadripper might have taken the crown.

If you're looking at a regular 125W AMD CPU, a full water cooling system is unnecessary (unless you are building a ridiculous system). My 220W CPU is using only a CPU waterblock and it's been more than enough.

Other than the power draw, I would highly recommend my CPU. You can get basically the same chip, just not supercharged, in the 8350. Which is still an "8 core" (yeah, not physical 8 core) chip, just running at 4.0 Ghz instead of 4.7. And that puts it back down to a 125W chip, for $130. So, it's last gen, but definitely powerful (although, reading reviews just now, it looks like liquid cooling is still recommended).

But, going up to the $200 range you can get a Ryzen 5 1600 6-core, and that would be more powerful, faster, run cooler, and allow for DDR4. (And not require a PSU with extra 8 pin for the CPU... lol).

Also, AMD is better than intel, until you get up into the extremely ridiculous zone, for $1000+. I might get to take that back. It looks like the new Ryzen Threadripper might have taken the crown.