new CAD station at work :)

[ajf]

Just taken delivery of a new CAD workstation at my work.
Quite a beast
2 x 3.0Ghz Quad Xeon
16Gb RAM
1Gb Ati Fire GL card
300Gb SATA 10k disk - assume this must be a Raptor?

Tried Prime95 on it and the CPU barely registers!
Has anyone tried Super Pi? I want to see how it compares on that.
Any other benchmarks worth running?

Unfortunately no photos as the case is warranty sealed

Andrew

 

[Simian]

You should 'Just' about be able to run AutoCAD 2009 with that spec!...

Would you be offended if I called you a Git!...

I'm running:

P4 2.4 Dual,
1.5Gb DDR2
Quadro NVS 280 SD with a Mahoosive 64Mb RAM...
all in a Dell Precision 380

Struggles with ACad 2009 somut chronic!..

and mine's the most up-to date and powerfull CAD workstation in the office!..

 

[Ben M]

superpi won't run that fast, it only uses one core @ 3ghz

 

[ajf]

You should 'Just' about be able to run AutoCAD 2009 with that spec!...

Would you be offended if I called you a Git!...

I'm running:

P4 2.4 Dual,
1.5Gb DDR2
Quadro NVS 280 SD with a Mahoosive 64Mb RAM...
all in a Dell Precision 380

Struggles with ACad 2009 somut chronic!..

and mine's the most up-to date and powerfull CAD workstation in the office!..

It's not actually for me but I do get to play with - sorry configure - it for the end user.
It will be used with Solidworks and 3D Max for rendering and modelling.
It's a bit noisy on boot mind you as it seems to be a server based case that it has been built in. Think Hoover.....

Andrew

 

[Energize]

I'm running:

P4 2.4 Dual,
1.5Gb DDR2
Quadro NVS 280 SD with a Mahoosive 64Mb RAM...
all in a Dell Precision 380

Struggles with ACad 2009 somut chronic!..

and mine's the most up-to date and powerfull CAD workstation in the office!..

My god, that must take forever to render stuff, it takes ages for even my pc to render videos with blender.