Hardware Help
Hardware Help
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Hi,
I am currently running SolidWorks 2008 and am having some performance issues. Is this hardware good enough?
AMD Athlon 64+ 3200+
2GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 570
It was ok until I started building more complicated assembles with more parts.
I am currently looking at a DELL T5400 is this overkill?
I am currently running SolidWorks 2008 and am having some performance issues. Is this hardware good enough?
AMD Athlon 64+ 3200+
2GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 570
It was ok until I started building more complicated assembles with more parts.
I am currently looking at a DELL T5400 is this overkill?






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Your processor is very weak. You should try and get a hold of an AMD Athlon X2 FX 6000 or higher. You really want around 3ghz of processing... or more!
Your video card is acceptable, however you should really have something between 512 to 1024mb onboard GPU memory, yours only has 256mb.
Make sure you harddrive is good too. You want to get at least a 7200rpm harddrive. Although 10,000rpm is preferable. SATA vs. IDE connection will real help too.
There is no such thing as overkill in solidworks when it comes to hardware.
go to spec.org and find the SPECapc benchmark for solidworks 2007, download it and run it. Your computer will probably clock at about 280 -300 seconds (my guess). In my opinion in Solidworks 2006-2008 you should clock 180-220seconds.
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The lower end T3400 offers more options of the Core®2 Duos and will give better value for money ... and probably better performance for core SW use.
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One of them...thread559-224176: What hardware to choose for SW2008SP4
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My assembles I am working with have about 600 components.
Regarding the graphics card for my assembly size what Nvidia Qaudro do you recommend? How much performance is in the Graphics Card?
What PC specs do you recommend for this situation?
Is it worth going to 64bit?
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Someone else posted something like this recently but I don't remember who and cannot find the thread. Thanks goes to them anyway.
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33Ghz Wolfdale
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 3.0Ghz Quad Core Penryn
Is tthe QX9650 worth the extra money? Not thinking about price will the QX9650 perform better with future versions of SolidWorks?
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33Ghz Wolfdale
Ballistix DDR2 4GB PC2-6400 Dual Channel
ASUS P5Q-E Motherboard
2 x 300GB Velociraptor 10,000prm RAID 0
Nvidia Quadro FX 570 256MB
Windows XP Pro 32bit
Solidworks 2009 SP0.0
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My current main board is a Gigabyte, and I really like how they laid things out and the quality of the accessory parts that came with the board. Great performance so far.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
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Joel C. Warnke
Mechanical Designer &
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Integrity Design & Mfg. Inc.
www.integritydesignmfg.com
Solidworks x64 2008 SP5.0
Windows XP Professional x64
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 512mb GPU
AMD Athlon X2 FX 6400+ CPU
4GB Corsair pc2-6400 DDR2 800mhz RAM
WD Velociraptor 10,000rpm SATA HD
Motherboard M2N-SLI
GPU OC (2
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