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chjade84   12-12-2008 at 07:27:48 PM

I have been given the assignment of building 8 new computers for our mechanical design engineers and I want to see where they are using the most resources. The reason is because I can either buy dual core E8500's, 4GB ram and QuadroFX 1500's -or- quad core i7's, 3GB ram and QuadroFX1300's for the same price.

CPU and RAM are easy enough to check using task manager but I need to know what on the video card we are really using. We will be running the newest Solidworks and the video cards are the same clock speed (i think, right?) but 128 and 256 MB ram, respectively.

Anyone know of some software that shows your GPU's RAM and processor speeds/usage?

Also if anyone out there uses Solidworks and knows already which system would be better please let me know.

Thanks!

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Outlander_04   12-13-2008 at 02:54:14 AM
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Almost any gpu is fine for mechanical engineering and draughting . High end use like 3D image composition might benefit from a top end quadro .

Quadros in general are a scam . They use identical gpu's to the gaming cards but are then built in to cards for stability rather than pushing gaming limits . The smaller number produced pushes the prices higher . More than one gaming card has been underclocked to make a decent "quadro"

I would tend towards the corei7 system

We've run solidworks on a 2.8 gig p4 Dell with a 7300gs gfx card + 19 inch lcd designing automotive components . Perhaps there are more demanding aspects to solidworks but the dell handles that usage just fine

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