topic Re: Computer upgrade in Fusion Support Forum

Computer upgrade

jerryc80 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 04:15:31 GMT

I am currently running Fusion 360 on a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6086. It hangs when I design complicated parts especially when inserting SVGs with high point counts. I am looking to upgrade to a Dell Inspiron 3000. I included spec of each below to see if you think it is worth upgrading to this model or I need something better. I don't have experience with the Vega 6 graphics or the AMD Ryzen CPU, wanted to make sure they worked well with Fusion.

Model Name: A665-S6086 Inspiron 17 3000 Laptop

Operating System

Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Windows 10 64 bit

Processor and Graphic

• Intel® Core™ i3-370M Processor AMD Ryzen™ 3 2300U Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Vega 6 Graphics

o 2.40 GHz, 3MB Cache

• Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset

• Mobile Intel® HD Graphics with 64MB – 1696MB dynamically allocated

shared graphics memory

Memory5

• Configured with 4GB DDR3 (max 8GB) 8GB, 2x4GB, DDR4, 2666MHz

Storage Drive6

• 500GB (7200 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA Hard Drive

Re: Computer upgrade

TrippyLighting — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:48:00 GMT

Fusion 360 is notoriously slow with imported DXF and SVG geometry when that includes many sketch elements.

Buying a better machine will only marginally improve that.

Re: Computer upgrade

jerryc80 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:16:14 GMT

With the current machine I have problems with slow graphics in most designs, svg's are locking up the machine, just wanting to see if anyone has used the inspiron and had good results.

Re: Computer upgrade

g-andresen — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 09:03:24 GMT

Hi,

The best way: try to test it with a Fusion Setup on the Inspiron.
If you have a look at the hardware requirements you ´ll see there are limitations with some Intel on Board graphic systems.

günther