Hardware question

[Anonymous]

I just upgraded my laptop from a 3, almost 4 year old HP Elite book 8760W to an HP Zbook 17 G3. The 8760W maxed out its memory at 16GB. The Zbook is also equipped with 16GB although I found it can take up to 64GB RAM. With 16GB on each the side by side performance is already astonishing (both have 512 GB SSD). Before the upgrade a 100MB CAD model brought the Elite book to its knees. But with the Zbook I would not say it flies through the model but it is very manageable. I know for sure the graphics card made a lot of difference.

I want to get the experience of the HP Zbook 17 g3 users out there if it is worthwhile to get 64 GB of RAM. Memory is cheap.

[qnologi]

If your computer meets the needs of "such" parameters, then you should do fine 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-civil-3d/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticl...

[qnologi]

Would also depend on if you're doing 2D or 3D?

Which OS?

Which ver. of AutoCAD?

[Anonymous]

I have been doing all 3D model based design for the past 15, 16 years (since AutoCAD 2000) solely on a mobile workstation. I do not have a desktop workstation because of the travel requirement as I frequently operate out of the office in the field. Actually the HP Elitebook 8760W is still capable in most situations. But these huge 100MB models just make the Elitebook non-functional. 

It is running Windows 7 64 bits with AutoCAD 2016 64 bits. I would really like fellow Zbook 17 g3 users' input.

[qnologi]

I can appreciate that. Hope you find what you're looking for.

[pendean]

Are both laptops using the same exact OS?
What are the two vid card differences? processors are what for both?
What version of AutoCAD are you using?

If the new laptop is a dog with the same RAM and HD specs (and presumably a better processor clock speed), I'm not sure RAM alone is going to be the only cure for it to match the old laptop performance.

[Anonymous]

The old workstation: Windows Experience Index 7.1

HP Elitebook 8760W

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU@2.80GHz, 16 GB, 64 bit OS, Win 7 enterprise SP1,

Graphics Card: Quadro 3000M

The new one: Windows Experience Index 7.1

HP Zbook 17 G3

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU@2.70GHz, 2.70GHz

16 GB, 64 bit OS, Win 7 professional SP1,

Graphics Card: Quadro M3000M

All I know is the new workstation walkS through the 100MB 3d model with relative ease while the old one gets completely bogged down.

[pendean]

"enterprise" vs "pro" for WIn7 is about the only variations other than processor generations, that I see that are note worthy. It may be just one of these.

Isn't NEW supposed to always be better anyway? 16GIG is low for 3D and 100MB files generally, around here I see recommendations of 32Gig minimum from others doing similar work to you.