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Getting a new system

Getting a new system

(OP)
I'm getting a new Dell Presision 670 with a 3.8 zeon, 4gb ram, 1 sata 10000rpm drive, and an nvidea quadro FX 3450 video

I just purchased PDMWorks but my Boss does not want it installed on our main Engineering server so I think I will set up my old workstation as a shared server for PDMWorks. We only have my single seat of Solidworks. My old system is a Dell Presision 360 with a P2.8 processor 1gb ram.

Here are my questions...
Is my choice of this new Work station ok?
Will my old workstation work ok as a shared wannabe server with XPPro?
Will I experience any performance hits using my old workstation with PDMWorks?
my VAR says all of this will be very good, but I value this forums advice

Thanks,
tom..

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Getting a new system

If you only have one seat of SW, why do you need a server for PDMWorks?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Getting a new system

CorBlimeyLimey's right--what's with one seat of SW and using PDMWorks?  Strange. ..

How will you use your 4GB of RAM--overkill unless you're using an OS that will actually allow use of it.  Are you planning to use XP x64?

Otherwise, apart from the Intel chip, that sounds like a decent system.  blllttt

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe trumps reason.

RE: Getting a new system

(OP)
All of our Eng data is stored on the main Eng server and is backed up everynight. There are 9 designers / engineers all using autocad Except for myself. None of our dept workstations are shared or backed up so we all work off the server in user work folders. Every time we save, its saving across the network. This works ok for autocad but SolidWorks really takes a performance hit. The AutoCad guys use a manual system to copy files in and out of a master folder on the server. I have been doing this with Solidworks and I'm constantly in fear of corrupting or loosing links. That is why I purchased PDMWorks. If I have to move files around I might as well let PDMWorks do it. Over time we will be adding a 2nd seat of SolidWorks so setting up a simple PDMWorks server now is probably a good idea.

Foolish me, how much ram will XPPro access if not all 4gb

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Getting a new system

Tom,
   I think your plan is a very good one. Your old PC will work. You might want to think of coping your vault data too your main Engineering server to get the vault data backed up every night.
Our requirement is to work over a network. I work on my local drive and copy the data at noon and 4 P.M. every day. No one is the wiser.

Bradley

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