Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
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Our brilliant IT department specs the minimum requirement desktops as "High-End" engineering PCs. We are having difficulty dealing with large assemblies, and I have requested we upgrade the memory and graphics card. We currently have the Quadro 4000, and I am recommending to upgrade to Quadro K5000 (wish the K6000 was out right now), and go from 16gb 1033mhz Ram to 32gb of 1600mhz RAM. Is this a decent upgrade that will help with handling large assemblies? And by handling I mean simply moving the model view around? Also I was curious as to processors and which processors are typically the fastest processors to handle NX? I7's or XEON?
NX 8.5.1.3





RE: Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
To answer your question about handling big models, YES it would do well: I look at the spec you gave and I kind of envy you hehe (I have 16 gb and nvidia 2000). The big assemblies I work with are handled decently with these specs.
RE: Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
NX 8.5.1.3
RE: Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
How many components are in your total assembly?
Do you use hardware that has modeled threads?
Are your component shapes prismatic or shaped surface styling?
Xeon's are preferred over the i-series processors, but they all work. How many cores do you have and how many CPUs? There is management of the cores that comes into play with multi-core processors. A quad-core processor is not the same power as 4 single cores of the same speed.
The corporate image and its 'spyware' can impact performance more than IT will admit to. Anti-virus software is a killer if IT is scanning the SSD where your CAD files are located.
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RE: Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
RE: Dell T3600 RAM and Graphics Card Upgrade
NX Assemblies with 10,000+ Components.
NX Nastran FEA
& 3DS Max Rendering
Our IT department is telling me to get the Intel Xeon Eight-Core Processor
Dual Quadro 5000 cards
32gb DDR3 1600MHz Ram (4x8gb)
and a 256GB or 500GB SSD
My main concern about this is that if I am running FEA or Rendering, and dealing with NX on the same processor wouldn't dual quad core processor's be better for that? I could assign the rendering or FEA to one processor and run NX/everything else on another processor?
Also I am not sure why they are suggesting Quadro 5000 cards over Quadro K5000 cards, but wouldn't it be better to go with the Quadro K5000 cards?
Thanks in advance.
NX 8.5.2.3