At my new job, I just received my new PC. It is a Dell with Windows Vista 64-bit, with 8GB of memory. I've never used a system this powerful before. Solidworks runs HUGE models like it's nothing on this new system. SWEEEEET!!!!
My new PC at work
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congrats. I get fully depreciated hand-me-downs from our customer's dispo pile.....
Having used Unigraphics 3D modeling @ a pervious job, there is nothing like boat loads of RAM.
Memory is like electricity, if you need it to make a job easier, just buy it.
Having used Unigraphics 3D modeling @ a pervious job, there is nothing like boat loads of RAM.
Memory is like electricity, if you need it to make a job easier, just buy it.
nice. I've been trying to get a new computer here, but the budget is tight. I'm running win2000, w/ like 128k of memory! any website w/ animation freezes it right up.
Originally Posted By: ZZman
And we used to think an 8 GB hard drive was big. How things change........
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
Sucks that we have to use XP at work. Vista with the right resources is just so much more stable, fast and bomb proof.
And we used to think an 8 GB hard drive was big. How things change........
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
Sucks that we have to use XP at work. Vista with the right resources is just so much more stable, fast and bomb proof.
Originally Posted By: Pablo
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
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And they WERE! Like the old Corvus HD's that were available for the Atari 400/800 series computers, IIRC they cost circa $4000 in early 80's dollars (and they may have been only 5 MEG)!
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
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And they WERE! Like the old Corvus HD's that were available for the Atari 400/800 series computers, IIRC they cost circa $4000 in early 80's dollars (and they may have been only 5 MEG)!
Originally Posted By: mpvue
nice. I've been trying to get a new computer here, but the budget is tight. I'm running win2000, w/ like 128k of memory! any website w/ animation freezes it right up.
That's what we've got, except 96 MB! Win2k does alright, I am quite impressed actually, with its small footprint.
I want to find some RAM in a discarded computer at the dump and add it, I think our IT guy wouldn't mind... or he'd even help maybe.
The only conspiracy I smell is they don't want to make it too "fun" or we'd slack off. My angle is acrobat (which we need) guzzles resources. (And I know there are lightweight pdf readers... I want my ram.
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nice. I've been trying to get a new computer here, but the budget is tight. I'm running win2000, w/ like 128k of memory! any website w/ animation freezes it right up.
That's what we've got, except 96 MB! Win2k does alright, I am quite impressed actually, with its small footprint.
I want to find some RAM in a discarded computer at the dump and add it, I think our IT guy wouldn't mind... or he'd even help maybe.
The only conspiracy I smell is they don't want to make it too "fun" or we'd slack off. My angle is acrobat (which we need) guzzles resources. (And I know there are lightweight pdf readers... I want my ram.
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Originally Posted By: ZZman
And we used to think an 8 GB hard drive was big. How things change........
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
Sucks that we have to use XP at work. Vista with the right resources is just so much more stable, fast and bomb proof.
XP64 with 8GB of RAM here (when I boot into Windows). Its a rocket ship on a 3.5Ghz (Q6600 OC'd) quad-core.
Originally Posted By: ZZman
And we used to think an 8 GB hard drive was big. How things change........
We used to think 10 MEG hardrives were HUGE.
Sucks that we have to use XP at work. Vista with the right resources is just so much more stable, fast and bomb proof.
XP64 with 8GB of RAM here (when I boot into Windows). Its a rocket ship on a 3.5Ghz (Q6600 OC'd) quad-core.
Must be nice, we run really close to the 2GB limit on our 3GB setups. We use Inventor with fairly large assemblies(500+ parts). I still find the biggest problem to be the graphics card on 3D CAD setups. CAD approved graphics cards are overpriced, and ours are now pretty old. I'm told Invntor is available in 64bit now and that helps a lot, but I'm sure it will be a while before we get there.
Man I would love a new machine that my stingy manager wouldn't approve. Currently I'm running:
1.8Ghz P4 in my cube doing document work, very slow as it is running on 512MB or SDR ram and it is the first gen P4 that's slower than P3
3.0Ghz P4 in my main development station with 3GB of ram (2GB of that is my personal upgrade), single core, but running about 6 threads of code build and simulation at the same time.
If there is a place that justify spending $1k for a PC, mine would be it.
1.8Ghz P4 in my cube doing document work, very slow as it is running on 512MB or SDR ram and it is the first gen P4 that's slower than P3
3.0Ghz P4 in my main development station with 3GB of ram (2GB of that is my personal upgrade), single core, but running about 6 threads of code build and simulation at the same time.
If there is a place that justify spending $1k for a PC, mine would be it.
geez, that's awful PB. For $600 with Intel M/B & CPU, you can get a MUCH nicer computer if you build it yourself.
we're getting a lot of nice dells(I know I said nice dells, but they are nice, although I could build better 
) at work for the new use of solidworks. Although due to someone's choice to use a ERP system that is not meant to handle the size of said company, we have to use Windows XP 32 bit OS on all systems that wish to cooperate with said ERP system.
) at work for the new use of solidworks. Although due to someone's choice to use a ERP system that is not meant to handle the size of said company, we have to use Windows XP 32 bit OS on all systems that wish to cooperate with said ERP system.
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geez, that's awful PB. For $600 with Intel M/B & CPU, you can get a MUCH nicer computer if you build it yourself.
Nope, IT has a disk image for rapid deployment and if I muck with the motherboard that broke the disk image, it goes on my negative evaluation. We have quite a few machines here and downtime is expensive. So I've been upgrading my own machine at my own cost, and whine about the speed until my boss trade his 3.0GHz CPU with my 2.4Ghz and buy us some new ram.
I'm experimenting VMWare images so that we can upgrade without worrying about deployment, if it works I think we can trickle down machines much faster.
I've gotten a new upgrade since I work here, and my newest machine is 4 years old, oldest is 6.
geez, that's awful PB. For $600 with Intel M/B & CPU, you can get a MUCH nicer computer if you build it yourself.
Nope, IT has a disk image for rapid deployment and if I muck with the motherboard that broke the disk image, it goes on my negative evaluation. We have quite a few machines here and downtime is expensive. So I've been upgrading my own machine at my own cost, and whine about the speed until my boss trade his 3.0GHz CPU with my 2.4Ghz and buy us some new ram.
I'm experimenting VMWare images so that we can upgrade without worrying about deployment, if it works I think we can trickle down machines much faster.
I've gotten a new upgrade since I work here, and my newest machine is 4 years old, oldest is 6.
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Nope, IT has a disk image for rapid deployment and if I muck with the motherboard that broke the disk image, it goes on my negative evaluation.
I have a single disk image of XP that works on all of our systems, from Pentium II 350mhz to latest Dell E6500 laptops to VMWare and Vbox virtual machines. I could send it to you if you'd like
Seems like the IT staff there could be a bit more, say, flexible on how they setup the image.
Nope, IT has a disk image for rapid deployment and if I muck with the motherboard that broke the disk image, it goes on my negative evaluation.
I have a single disk image of XP that works on all of our systems, from Pentium II 350mhz to latest Dell E6500 laptops to VMWare and Vbox virtual machines. I could send it to you if you'd like
Seems like the IT staff there could be a bit more, say, flexible on how they setup the image.
crinkles, you'd think that, but it's not the case. Cheap is always the rule unless the company understands the value of better IT. Yeah, that sounds weird, but just because it's a technology company doesn't mean the corporate belief system is to equip people with the proper tools to do the job.
EDS/HP leases machines and so they get replaced every couple of years.
Originally Posted By: crinkles
pandabear, i'd think that SANDISK of all places, being an IT company would have top of the line development tools!
Overall yes, but my boss is very stingy. The team next to us got to have laptops that can be taken home with and upgrade every 2 years.
Top notch tools in software for sure. We have some development software developed in house that simulate the entire processor's behavior before the processor is ever build. You can develop and run the firmware on the simulated processor before the hardware is ready, sometimes even catch hardware design problems, and you can inject errors anywhere including timing information. These are the stuff that really makes our products' quality.
Just need a fast enough computer to run them.
pandabear, i'd think that SANDISK of all places, being an IT company would have top of the line development tools!
Overall yes, but my boss is very stingy. The team next to us got to have laptops that can be taken home with and upgrade every 2 years.
Top notch tools in software for sure. We have some development software developed in house that simulate the entire processor's behavior before the processor is ever build. You can develop and run the firmware on the simulated processor before the hardware is ready, sometimes even catch hardware design problems, and you can inject errors anywhere including timing information. These are the stuff that really makes our products' quality.
Just need a fast enough computer to run them.
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
Seems like the IT staff there could be a bit more, say, flexible on how they setup the image.
That too, and the turn around time is usually a week when a machine is down. We usually end up swapping a machine of a co-worker on vacation or designated for visitor from another office, before we give it to IT and ask them to swap it out.
The HQ has this anal retentive security policy that none of our development work can be done, so our department say screw it and asked to be excluded from the IT, so we can do our own thing. This is good as long as nothing is broken. Actually it is better because we don't want a 1 week turn around time.
I have a ticket still open from Feb on some email/virus mishap, and they recently close the ticket down expired without solving the issue.
Seems like the IT staff there could be a bit more, say, flexible on how they setup the image.
That too, and the turn around time is usually a week when a machine is down. We usually end up swapping a machine of a co-worker on vacation or designated for visitor from another office, before we give it to IT and ask them to swap it out.
The HQ has this anal retentive security policy that none of our development work can be done, so our department say screw it and asked to be excluded from the IT, so we can do our own thing. This is good as long as nothing is broken. Actually it is better because we don't want a 1 week turn around time.
I have a ticket still open from Feb on some email/virus mishap, and they recently close the ticket down expired without solving the issue.
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