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Hi,

I am looking to upgrade my desktop here at work.

I know Dell has recommendations based on the software but I would like some alternatives such as HP. Can I find the HP recommended hardware configurations any where?

I am looking at going 64 bit, thoughts.

Out in left field is the idea of going Mac, any thoughts on this as well?

Thanks in advance!

Hockeyguy

RE: New Computer Specs

64bit is the only way to go these days.
8GB memory minimum
dual-core CPU
Nvidia graphics card with 1GB memory
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: New Computer Specs

On the CPU front, I saw a presentation recently where Dell & AMD have done a range of benchmarks and their conclusion was that fewer cores with a higher clock speed gives you much better performance than lots of slower cores. So for a given budget, having 2 quad core processors would probably be slower than having one faster processor with 2-4 cores.

HTH

Jon

JHTH
NX 7.0.1.7 + TC 2007

RE: New Computer Specs

If you are going to do large CAM work I would recommend the fastest quad your budget will reasonably allow.  I have may manufacturing environment set to use three cores max so I have a core left over for typical desktop usage.  I feel good when I see 3/4 cores pegged!  I tried crunching CAM operations with all four cores enabled but then my interface became very unresponsive like back in the old days; crunching on a single core system.

As for ram my system has 12GB but I have never used more than 8GB.   

NX 7.5
  

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