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Dell M90

Dell M90

Dell M90

(OP)
I'm looking at a Dell M90, Dual core, 2.16GHz 667, 2GB Ram, nvidia 2500x.

I'm currently running P4 2.4 GHz, 1.5 GB Ram, nvidia quadro pro 2.

Would I see a significant improvement in SW 2006 performance?

RE: Dell M90

It depends on the performance you are getting now.
IMO, probably a little.

Chris
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AutoCAD 06
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RE: Dell M90

(OP)
Thanks Chris.  I am getting mostly good performance.  All apps work great but SolidWorks.  I deal with a lot of parts and assy's that have helical features. Not many parts, but complex parts.

Small changes on the complex parts can take 45-60 seconds to update.

This pc is 4 years old.  It was a monster in its day, but now just average.  I always have Adobe, Outlook and usually Excel running as well.

RE: Dell M90

the graphics would be better and the dual core would improve some things, others not.  Still, I prefer the AMD dual cores, but you can't get those from dell.

RE: Dell M90

We converted to dual processor Dell 670 workstations with Windows XPx64.  There has been a great improvement in performance in our large assemblies and COSMOS.  We have 4 gB of RAM. One area that really shows a difference you virtual memory goes from megabytes to terabytes.  But when SW is pounding away on one processor the other background stuff goes to the other.

RE: Dell M90

I agree with the helical issue.  My computer, though not optimal for SW, is a dog once I put in a helix.  Otherwise SW works fine on it.

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