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Processors for AutoCad 2004

Processors for AutoCad 2004

Processors for AutoCad 2004

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I am looking to purchase a laptop to run AutoCad 2004 and also Revit 6,however I am on a budget of less than £1000 (which includes the VAT).

I am confused with Celeron, Athelon, Centrino in comparison with a true Pentium 4 processor.

We have pentium 4 1.5 Ghz machines in work which handle AutoCad quite well but also a Pentium Celeron 2.2Ghz that struggles with AutoCad which leads me to believe that this is a cut down version of the pentium processor.

Does anyone have any good advise or better still point me in the direction of an article comparing processors.

Regards

Welshman

RE: Processors for AutoCad 2004

If we talk about comparison between processors or about processors quality we can spend hours on this subject only.
You can start from here http://www20.tomshardware.com

The fact that your Celeron 2.2Ghz struggles with Autocad is not a consequence of Autocad's needs. You should take your time to "clean" and re-arrange a little bit that computer.

As far as I know the latest versions of Autocad should work well on any processor faster than 1.0 GHz

RE: Processors for AutoCad 2004

Celeron and the low cost version of Athlon do not have so called math coprocessor which is vital for ACAD.

RE: Processors for AutoCad 2004

Check with autocad , I believe it must be a true Pentium. But I know from experience other processors will run it.

RE: Processors for AutoCad 2004

AutoCAD should run great on Athlons, Durons, Pentium 4's, 3's etc.  Actuatlly what might be killing the Celeron that he is having problems with is most likely he is either low on ram or the build in Intel extreme or whatever built in graphics is slowing it down. (Assumption that not many Celerons are sold in a computer with a real graphics card)

Heck, the Athlon64/Opteron processors are probably the fastest AutoCAD processors out there. I know they are for Solidworks but haven't looked to hard lately for ACAD as I don't use it much anymore.

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