The Perfect Computer

[scoelho]

Ok, if I had say $5000 for a new computer (no new monitor), what should I look for.

 

Any brand name will do, HP, dell, ?

Hard drive speed? size?

how much RAM?

Video Card?

Processor? or dual processors?

XP or 2000?

 

I have some large scene files with thousands of parts. Some file sizes get up to 70mb. I hate waiting for the files to save.

 

I currently have:

Hp xw6000, 2.4GHz Xeon

1 Gb RAM

Quadro 4 980 XGL 128mb

Segate SCSI drive ~40Gb

 

It's not fast enough.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Steve

[tlehnhaeuser]

Steve,

Hope this helps a little.

http://www.magnacad.com/SoftwareDivision/I...C2004SysReq.txt

 

 

[scoelho]

Thanks Tom,

 

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

 

Do you prefer HP or Dell, and have you tried out the new nVidia FX 4000 series cards?

 

-Steve

 

Steve,

Hope this helps a little.

http://www.magnacad.com/SoftwareDivision/I...C2004SysReq.txt

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[Mike Twining]

Tom-

Nice recommendations. One thing I might add to your sheet though: I noticed that for your High End machine, you only mention Xeon ProcessoR (as opposed to ProcessorS). I can speak from experience that, althouhg IronCAD does not take advantage of multi-threadded processes (either multiple processors or "HT Technology") having a 2nd processor to make your computer run (anything) while you are loading up large files is REALLY NICE! It gives you plenty of computing power to browse the ol' IronCAD community while you got 1 processor fully pegged chewing on model data.

 

MikeT

 

Edit: Should read, "IronCAD does not support multi processors YET".... right guys...IK? Cary?...

Edited September 6, 2005 by Mike Twining

[Robert Andersson]

Athlon 64 outperform Intel