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Processor Spec

Processor Spec

Processor Spec

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I current run SE on a Xeon 5150 pocessor, 2Gb mem, and quatro 3450 graphics cards, with 250Gb 750rpm hard drives.

My understadning of the xeon 5150 processor is that in fact it is a dual porcessor unit, thus there are physically two processors on the mother board. This is in contrast to dual core technology which has two processors on the same board and thus one connect to the mother board. Is this correct? (When i look at my system devices it shows 2 processors of 2.66Ghz)

i'm looking at buying a new PC's, and have been told that the core 2 duo technology would be the best to go for. So is this in fact 2 spearate processors which are individually dual core?

In any case with our complex part files rebuild times after supressing a feature take a minute, checking the system CPU usage, it appears that one of the processors is maxed out and the other is hardly used. Thus i take it that predominatly SE is only capable of using a single processor and not multi threading? If so will a dual core porcessor change anything and will SE be able totake advatange of this? If so then surely as SE only uses one processor currently then the only advantage of going for core 2 Duo in contrast to core Duo is that all the background non SE activities will be done on the second processor?

I'm also planning to go up to a 4gb ram of 4*1gb, pplus a 1500rpm hard drive - all data is stored on a server.

Your thoughts most appreciated.

RE: Processor Spec

Hi Creed12
Not sure of the physical differences (although I think both are 2 processors mounted on a single die), but the core Duo has inferior performance to the core 2 Duo so suggest staying away. Because SE mostly uses only one core the higher the clock speed the better (5160 @ 3Ghz). I have also found a fast HD makes a big difference so good choice.

Tony

RE: Processor Spec

Hi,
I recently bought a new workstation for home and based it on the workstation I use at work -

Core2 Quad 2.4GHz processor
4 GB Ram
150 GB 10000rpm HD for system
500 GB 7200rpm storage disk
NVidia Quadro FX4600 768MB graphics.
Windows XP (32bit)

At work I have XP64 bit and we will be running SE V20 64 bit soon. The disk arrangement in by work machine is also slightly different in that it is a striped raid.

In my opinion it's the traffic on the network that will slow you down. Ours is only a small office and often I'm the first to arrive in the morning. When I am, the system is really quick to load big files, but as more people arrive and log on it quite noticeabley takes longer to load those same models.
Some people will say that a quad core is overkill and will make no difference in Solid Edge, but it will if you are creating drawing views of large assemblies.
Our top-levels are 25-30K parts, main sub-assemblies 2-3K parts and the cpu regularly shows all 4 cores going at 100% when creating these drawings.
If you want to make use of all 4GB of RAM (or more) you will also need to use XP64. I would also use 2x 2GB to give you chance to increase in future if you have 4 memory slots.

Hope this helps

bc

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