Computer upgrade

Computer upgrade

jerryc80
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Computer upgrade

jerryc80
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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

 

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TrippyLighting
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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.


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jerryc80
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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.

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g-andresen
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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

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