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Need help making a computer for solidworks

Need help making a computer for solidworks

Need help making a computer for solidworks

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My boss is letting me pick everything I want for new computer to run solidworks on.  

I would like laptop since 1/2 time I will be working from my house(2 man company since I joined).  I'm thinking the Athlon64 would be a good processor.  Any suggestions?  This is for 2001plus, I'm going to try and see if we can upgrade to 2005.  

I don't need anything real fancy but I need a fast processor and ram for solidworks.  Other uses would be writing bids, and using the internet to order parts from vendors.

Built in wireless internet would also be a big plus.

Sorry for the rambling, any suggestions welcome thanks.

Joe Conklin
joeconklin@gmail.com

RE: Need help making a computer for solidworks

If you really get to pick everything you want, I'd seriously consider foregoing the laptop and go with a tower workstation -- you'll get much, much better performance for the money.

I work from home about 30% and just lug the tower back and forth. I've purchased a collapsible (sp?) dolly and really find it very little effort to swap I/O from my personal machine to the company horse.

If you're not going to be travelling, then I see little benefit to the laptop.

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RE: Need help making a computer for solidworks

A real workstation will give you the benifits of expansion for any component in the future and almost half the price for the same performance as a laptop.  Considering how much your time is worth, it could pay off to buy two workstations and a USB keychain (to tote files) between the two.  I bought an AMD 64-bit Opteron box (no monitor) for less than $2,000 over a year ago and am getting excellent results in performance and stability.  A 1GB USB flash drive will cost $60-$100 and is a great way to keep all files updated between locations.  (I do a lot of on-site work for clients.)

Search this forum for "Intel" "AMD" "RAM" and others to find more specific information on this topic.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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RE: Need help making a computer for solidworks

Hi Joe,

http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.data/specapc_sw2005_summary.html

This might be of interest.  I don't know the background of this benchmark test, but if mobile requirements are what you need, the M70 laptop is not obscenely more expensive than the desktop workstations.

DW

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