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Inte Xeon Processor E5-2620 v2 (Six Core HT, 2.1GHz Turbo) and inventor

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Ryan.Martinez
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Inte Xeon Processor E5-2620 v2 (Six Core HT, 2.1GHz Turbo) and inventor

Anyone have experience using this processor with Inventor? The IT guy at my company speced a new workstation for me and is trying to tell me this will be a huge upgrade from my Xenon W3570 3.2 ghz quad core. feel like this is going to run inventor poorly as it does not even meet the minimum requirements for the program. Any thoughts?
P.D.S. 2015
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mcgyvr
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NO.. You want the fastest processor speed you can afford..

Most of Inventor is still not multithreaded.. So having more cores does NOT help..

A single core 3.5Ghz processor would walk all over that as far as Inventor is concerned.

You want 3.5Ghz and higher IMO.. quad core is fine. 

 

Now post the rest of the system specs.. 

You want plenty of RAM.. decent gaming video card and 3.5Ghz+ processor. Core i7/Xeon

 



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Ryan.Martinez
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This is always what i have told the IT guy but he seems to think this will be better. He didn't buy my speech about the gaming card and directx either.
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blair
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Unless you are doing a lot of Rendering and FEA work, then go with more cores. For straight Inventor modeling, go with the fastest clock speed as posted. About 6 releases ago, Inventor was OpenGL based and a "pro" OpenGL card was required. Since then, a fast "Gamming" card is all that's needed.

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mcgyvr
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@ryan.martinez wrote:
This is always what i have told the IT guy but he seems to think this will be better. He didn't buy my speech about the gaming card and directx either.

He is simply incorrect. 
Time to set him straight before you get stuck with a crappy computer. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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brian.cranston
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I suggest a Xeon E5-1650 v2.  It should be about the same price as the other CPU, but top at 3.93 GHz versus 2.76 GHz for the E5-2620V2.  Also, if the price is the same, spec your RAM using four modules.  That will help a little in raw throughput.

 

If you can wait 2-3 months, the V3 stuff should be out.  The biggest difference is DDR4 memory at a higher frequency and adding a couple more cores. That's great for Sim CFD.  As to Inventor- a little bit.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#Xeon_E5-1xxx_v2_.28uniprocessor.29

 

-Brian

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