Need advice for hardware requirement

[Anonymous]

Hello

im in the process of buying a setup for at newcommer, and i just want to run the setup by the pros. 

Cpu: AMD Athlon 5350 / 2 GHz Processor - AM1
Ram :Kingston HyperX blu - 2x8GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800 CL10
Gfx : ASUS R7240-2GD3-L grafikkort - 2GB
OS: Windows 8.1 

disk: 7200rm 500 gb somthing.

any oversights ?

goal is a "cheap" but preformabel machine running  inventor version 14 and later 15

[mcgyvr]

That will be a SLOW..SLOW machine.. 

Time is money.. DON'T go cheap.. Why you ask? Simply spending $1000 more on decent hardware could save thousands over the life of a machine simply in the time the user is "waiting".. waiting = wasted time 

To build an Inventor machine worth anything it needs a min of a 3Ghz processor (Corei7 or Xeon,etc..) with 3.5+ preferred. 

8+Ghz of RAM (absolute minimum)

A solid state hard drive is HIGHLY recommended.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticl...

[ampster402]

Seems like questions about or people asking for hardware confirmations comes up weekly.

The link for the current version system requirements should become a sticky or pinned at the top of this forum now.

2 cents worth

edit...not that anybody reads or notices those pinned topics  lol

[Anonymous]

thanks! timeis money but for studens it is a hassel 😄

hmm i'll try to redesign the setup

[mdavis22569]

Can you afford an Solid State Hard Drive too .. and as stated above ... Go with the I7 or Xeon as a minimum 16 gig's or higher of ram too

[JavaLodge]

I believe he has 16 gb of ram.  Up top he says he has 2x8gb DDR3 RAM.  I agree with others, the weak point on this setup would be the processor.  I'd like to know what everyone's opinion on SSDs are.  What is their main advantage over a convetional hard drive?

[rg97]

SSD's read and write much faster than a hard drive. This translates into faster boot times, faster program loading, and faster part opening. Many people have said that an SSD makes your system much "snappier"

X2 on needing at least an i5, preferably an i7 or the xeon 1240-e3 or higher. Not sure how good that graphics card is, but the quadro (k2000 or 4000) series by NVidia perform very well with inventor and other such modelling programs if you plan to use BOBCad or Solidworks in the future. 3

Your SSD doesnt have to be huge either. I'm satisfied with 120gb because all thats on there is boot files and programs that I use very often (Chrome, inventor, etc.) and things not used as often are thrown on the hard drive. 

[ampster402]

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@JavaLodge wrote:

 I'd like to know what everyone's opinion on SSDs are.  What is their main advantage over a convetional hard drive?

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I believe you see the advantage mainly during pc startup and possibly during load times when opening Inv files, however they would have to reside on the ssd drive itself.

[mdavis22569]

Start up, load, saving, opening ... Supposedly a longer life cycle too.

[Anonymous]

what about 

AMD Quad Core FX CPU nummer/ model FX-670K - 3,70 (GHz)

RAM Type DDR3 12 GB
HDD: will try to find a ssd
GFX model (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 645 dedicated GPU RAM 2 GB

[mdavis22569]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-fx-670k-cpu-shows-up-in-the-wild.199179/ about the CPU ... Can you get your Ram up to 16? 2 sticks of 8 vs 3 sticks of 4 ...

[rg97]

It's just me, but to be on the safe side I would go with at least a gtx 660 or 760

PS samsung makes great, cheap SSD's

[keelerpd]

Has anyone every spec'd out a PC at Dell?

What what you get?

What about this;

• Dell Outlet Precision T5610

• Processor: Dual Intel Xeon Processor E5-2630 v2 Processor (Six Core HT, 2.6GHz Turbo, 15 MB)
• Windows 7 Pro
• 256 GB SSD

• 64 GB Memory (4x16GB) 1866MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM
• 16X DVD +/- RW Drive
• 3 GB NVIDIA Quadro K4000 (2DP and 1DVI-I) (2DP-DVI and 1DVI-VGA adapter)

Thoughts from the group?  This machine would run Inventor, our 3D models are pretty large.

[swalton]

We have been happy with Dell outlet machines.  I think Dell likes to hit pricepoints with the outlet machines, so you can get a fast CPU with minimal RAM/GPU or a slower CPU with lots of RAM, or some other set of trade-offs.

IV likes fast single thread performance from the CPU.  I would look for that first, then RAM, then GPU, then SSDs. The only three areas of IV that take advantage of multicore CPUs are FEA, Drawing Views, and Studio (Inventor HSM may use multicore to calculate tool paths).  Everything else is single threaded.

Take a look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ to get an idea of the current performance levels for CPUs etc.

If you don't need to run high-end OpenGL programs, then lots of folks have been happy with gamer-class GPUs.  You might consider the outlet machine as the base and buy upgraded RAM, GPU, and SSDs from the open market.