joshua.white
Senior Member
What do you guys recommend? It seems like I can get a fairly high-end gaming rig, or a low end mobile workstation rig. I'm on an old Dell Vostro 3770 right now. It's a Sandybridge era i5, with 8GB of ram, a 250GB SSD, and an Nvidia 525 GPU.
What's the consensus on GPUs? Does/will Geomagic Design want a workstation class GPU, or is it just as well off with a consumer oriented model? I'll be designing a next generation machine, which will be an assembly of 500-1000 parts (the previous generation machine model has 790 parts, not including most fasteners, but the goal is to simplify with this generation where possible). So Geforce, Quadro, FirePro, or consumer AMD?
As for the CPU, as I understand things, single core performance is the goal with Geomagic, so I should generally look for clock speed over core count for a given CPU architecture, so that probably means I'll be sticking with Intel.
In terms of Memory, I often max out my 8GB of RAM, so I think I'll be looking for 16GB on this system.
The SSD is rather nice to have, and since I use the M-Files and store all my files on a server, I don't need a lot of local storage. I seem to have plenty of room on my existing SSD, so I think I can stick with the same specs here.
For the Display, I think I'd like to stick with 17". I've used 15" and 17" Dell Precision Mobile Workstations in the past, and I guess I was happy with both, but I find that the 17" monitor I have right now is a pretty good size next to my 21.5" desktop monitor when I'm in the office (I'd plan to keep this for the time being). The 17" monitor is also nice when traveling since it's my only display, though it it a bit bulkier to carry. I typically drive to where I travel for work, so it's not like I have to lug it through airports all that often. So that said, I think I'd prefer a 17" display, running at 1080p+ resolution (my current display is 1600x900, and surprisingly not as bad as it may sound).
Does anyone else have a system like this? What are recommendations as far as compatibility? I've had issues all along on my current system working with 2D acceleration and creating drawing views. What can I do to maximize performance in this area? As you may guess, making a drawing of a ~800 part assembly can be a struggle with my existing machine, and I'm looking to reduce the amount of time I spend waiting for the computer, and would rather increase the amount of time it spends waiting for me.
Anything you kind folks can suggest would be greatly appreciated!
What's the consensus on GPUs? Does/will Geomagic Design want a workstation class GPU, or is it just as well off with a consumer oriented model? I'll be designing a next generation machine, which will be an assembly of 500-1000 parts (the previous generation machine model has 790 parts, not including most fasteners, but the goal is to simplify with this generation where possible). So Geforce, Quadro, FirePro, or consumer AMD?
As for the CPU, as I understand things, single core performance is the goal with Geomagic, so I should generally look for clock speed over core count for a given CPU architecture, so that probably means I'll be sticking with Intel.
In terms of Memory, I often max out my 8GB of RAM, so I think I'll be looking for 16GB on this system.
The SSD is rather nice to have, and since I use the M-Files and store all my files on a server, I don't need a lot of local storage. I seem to have plenty of room on my existing SSD, so I think I can stick with the same specs here.
For the Display, I think I'd like to stick with 17". I've used 15" and 17" Dell Precision Mobile Workstations in the past, and I guess I was happy with both, but I find that the 17" monitor I have right now is a pretty good size next to my 21.5" desktop monitor when I'm in the office (I'd plan to keep this for the time being). The 17" monitor is also nice when traveling since it's my only display, though it it a bit bulkier to carry. I typically drive to where I travel for work, so it's not like I have to lug it through airports all that often. So that said, I think I'd prefer a 17" display, running at 1080p+ resolution (my current display is 1600x900, and surprisingly not as bad as it may sound).
Does anyone else have a system like this? What are recommendations as far as compatibility? I've had issues all along on my current system working with 2D acceleration and creating drawing views. What can I do to maximize performance in this area? As you may guess, making a drawing of a ~800 part assembly can be a struggle with my existing machine, and I'm looking to reduce the amount of time I spend waiting for the computer, and would rather increase the amount of time it spends waiting for me.
Anything you kind folks can suggest would be greatly appreciated!
