Dell M90

[BARTHURS]

I'm looking at a Dell M90, Dual core, 2.16GHz 667, 2GB Ram, nvidia 2500x.

I'm currently running P4 2.4 GHz, 1.5 GB Ram, nvidia quadro pro 2.

Would I see a significant improvement in SW 2006 performance?

 

[ctopher]

It depends on the performance you are getting now.
IMO, probably a little.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
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[BARTHURS]

Thanks Chris. I am getting mostly good performance. All apps work great but SolidWorks. I deal with a lot of parts and assy's that have helical features. Not many parts, but complex parts.

Small changes on the complex parts can take 45-60 seconds to update.

This pc is 4 years old. It was a monster in its day, but now just average. I always have Adobe, Outlook and usually Excel running as well.

 

[dezignstuff]

the graphics would be better and the dual core would improve some things, others not. Still, I prefer the AMD dual cores, but you can't get those from dell.

 

[ctopher]

The helical features will slow you down.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

 

[crjones]

We converted to dual processor Dell 670 workstations with Windows XPx64. There has been a great improvement in performance in our large assemblies and COSMOS. We have 4 gB of RAM. One area that really shows a difference you virtual memory goes from megabytes to terabytes. But when SW is pounding away on one processor the other background stuff goes to the other.

 

[ed911]

I agree with the helical issue. My computer, though not optimal for SW, is a dog once I put in a helix. Otherwise SW works fine on it.