Intel Core i7

[moriarty]

Anyone used one of these new chipsets with Mechanica? Is
there the predicted performance leap on big jobs?

 

[[-Skint-]]

I built a home pc last week and considered the i7 chipset, but from reading lots about them the performance leap doesnt justify the cost leap.. I opted for a AMD Phenom x4 Quad 2.5 instead, paired with 8GB ram it runs pro-e like a dream

 

[moriarty]

Agreed, for ProE it probably wont deliver anything
extra. For a big Mechanica job it should - extra
processors and much greater memory bandwidth.

 

[2ms1]

So what makes for quick regen times in Pro/E? Do you pretty much want
to find the highest clock rate C2D (since they are higher than i7 clock
rates). Or maybe the highest clock rate Opteron? The quad-cores
generally have lower clock rates. Does Pro/E benefit much from
additional cores at all?

Right now my model takes 5 minutes to regenerate. That means just
trying one little dimension change in some feature or whatever requires
then waiting 5 minutes for regen. It's driving me completely insane to the
point where I'm am going to buy a new workstation this week. However, I
don't know what features to spend money on and what not to spend
money on because I do not know what cpu characteristics make for faster
regen times.

Can anyone shed some light on this topic for me?

 

[dr_gallup]

Since Pro/E is essentially single threaded, particularly regenerating a part, you want clock speed.

 

[2ms1]

What about graphics card? Does that affect regen at all?