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Hi all,
about this time last year i built new workstations for our CAD designers. I was budgeted so after a little experimenting i now have 6 cad pc's which are built around either, Q6600, i5, or i7. All have atleast 4gb of ram, win 7 pro x64, and 80gb Intel SSD's.
One has a nvidia quadro fx580 professional card installed, whilst the others just have cheapo nvidia 8400gs cards. However our cad manager has ran tests on both cards whilst rendering in sketchup and drawing in autocad and couldn't find any discernible difference between the two in terms of time taken and final results, given that the fx580 costs approx. £140 and the 8400gs less than £40.
For the past month or so 2 of the cad pc's have ben plagued with issues and either freeze the pc, forcing a hard power cycle or bsod.....and its always when the user is running cad.
One runs autocad 2009, the other architecture 2009.
Not really got a clue as to why they only crash with cad products.
I'm wondering whether to reformat AND put the FX580 cards in them as AutoDesk can't then complain that we aren't hardware compliant with their software and will maybe help a little more.
I'm also wondering about the Sandybridge chips. They seem to offer excellent benefits for gaming, i'm wondering whether they could do something for cad/sketchup type appliations.
Any thought on the above please?
about this time last year i built new workstations for our CAD designers. I was budgeted so after a little experimenting i now have 6 cad pc's which are built around either, Q6600, i5, or i7. All have atleast 4gb of ram, win 7 pro x64, and 80gb Intel SSD's.
One has a nvidia quadro fx580 professional card installed, whilst the others just have cheapo nvidia 8400gs cards. However our cad manager has ran tests on both cards whilst rendering in sketchup and drawing in autocad and couldn't find any discernible difference between the two in terms of time taken and final results, given that the fx580 costs approx. £140 and the 8400gs less than £40.
For the past month or so 2 of the cad pc's have ben plagued with issues and either freeze the pc, forcing a hard power cycle or bsod.....and its always when the user is running cad.
One runs autocad 2009, the other architecture 2009.
Not really got a clue as to why they only crash with cad products.
I'm wondering whether to reformat AND put the FX580 cards in them as AutoDesk can't then complain that we aren't hardware compliant with their software and will maybe help a little more.
I'm also wondering about the Sandybridge chips. They seem to offer excellent benefits for gaming, i'm wondering whether they could do something for cad/sketchup type appliations.
Any thought on the above please?