We bought 7 Precision 490s:
WinXP 64-bit
2 - Quad Core Xeon 2.00GHz
4GB RAM
256MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
2 - 146GB SAS HDs in RAID 0
Outside of Smarteam causing issues with Solidworks (which was an issue on the old systems), these new machines are much better than what they were using.
I am looking to upgrade my ME's as well after benchmarking SW2007 on their current machines and other more powerful systems. You can see the results under the Benchmark thread:
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=186991&page=3
Anyways, although not concrete, I think I am settling on a...
We upgraded to SW 2007 in March '07, and I've been trying to figure why my engineers are running slow. Considering buying them new computers, just trying to figure out how best to proceed.
Their current computers:
SolidWorks 2007 Workstation Benchmark
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