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I've been bitten twice in the past 5 years by crappy ATI cards. I've found their support to be terrible.
Devon
John
I do have a question though: Does anyone have any suggestions for a mobile graphics card? I currently have the nVidia GeForce4 440 on my laptop and while it does alright with one SW window open it really starts to bog down with multiple windows open. Granted, the card only has 64Mb of Ram on it so am sure that has something to do with it.
Has anyone done any testing or can recommend an upgrade to what I have?
John - There's a standard benchmark created by spec.org for SolidWorks 2007. It's the first one I use. SolidWorks 2007 Benchmark
Rob Rodriguez also just posted about his upgrade to a Nvidia Quadro FX 3500. He does a lot of rendering with PhotoWorks.
The Nvidia Quaddro 4600 and 5600 are pretty high priced for most users/companies so I'm thinking that Nvidia will have something coming out spring/summer '08 to bury ATI mid-range, although it could be argued that they already have. :)
1 12.50 14.60
2 12.50 10.70
3 12.50 10.70
4 12.50 9.84
5 12.50 24.90
6 12.50 18.70
7 12.50 35.70
8 12.50 15.00
Weighted Geometric Mean = 15.91
1. FX-60 Dual-Core (2.61 GHz) - 2Gb RAM - XP
2. FX-53 (2.41 GHz) - 2Gb RAM - XP 64
3. Quad-Core AMD Opteron (2.0 GHz) - 2.10Gb RAM - XP
(Total , Graphics, CPU, I/O - in seconds)
1. 161.31, 46.68, 52.68, 61.95
2. 175.23, 43.14, 58.39, 73.70
3. 205.41, 53.91, 72.22, 79.22
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No biggie. I would like to, though, compare what I have now to the computer I will be getting so I need to do a complete test.... thanks.
I would just download the "SPECapcSM for SolidWorks 2007™" near the bottom of the page.It will install into a folder like
C:\Program Files\SPECapc\SolidWorks Benchmark 2007\
Sorry for the confusion! :)
Model : Precision WorkStation 380
OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS SP : Service Pack 2
CPU : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz
# of CPU : 2
Memory : 3582
Test Averages for 5 tests(s).
Test Total = 286.07
Graphics = 106.61
CPU = 78.82
I/O = 100.64
Any idea what to upgrade to cut rebuild times?
BTW: A 30" HP monitor turned out to be a good companion ;-)
That 30" would be nice. I have the 24" and that would just be incredible, although it wouldn't fit under my desk shelf.