help spec'ing out a new computer

qclabrat

qclabrat

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lilbuj said:
I work for an MEP engineering firm modeling in Revit and AutoCAD. My work laptop is an HP Z-Book with Intel i7-6700HQ CPU @2.6GHz with 40Gb ram.
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the Z series is really good, which graphics card do you have in the laptop?
 
gtluke

gtluke

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I learned autocad on a 286 with a green screen monitor and no mouse.
Eventually high school got upgraded and we got a 386 with windows and a mouse and a color screen. I bet it had like 16k of memory.
Today, I still use autocad and it's 99% the same god damn program, but I now have 16GB of memory and it chokes and doesn't want to run. SAD.
 
qclabrat

qclabrat

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gtluke said:
I learned autocad on a 286 with a green screen monitor and no mouse.
Eventually high school got upgraded and we got a 386 with windows and a mouse and a color screen. I bet it had like 16k of memory.
Today, I still use autocad and it's 99% the same god damn program, but I now have 16GB of memory and it chokes and doesn't want to run. SAD.
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I did too, and it took 2 hrs to render a small drawing on megamodel.
but then again I was also patient enough then to wait the same time to download nudie pics...
 
qclabrat

qclabrat

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Robson said:
I would check application hardware requirement first.
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yes you can run CAD on i3 machines just like you can use an on-board graphics chip
but not optimized, not even close especially for rendering

from Autodesk for 2018
CPU Type 32-bit: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) processor
64-bit: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 64-bit (x64) processor
Memory 32-bit: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
64-bit: 4 GB (8 GB recommended)
Display Resolution Conventional Displays:
1360 x 768 (1920 x 1080 recommended) with True Color
High Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 supported on Windows 10, 64 bit systems (with capable display card)
Display Card Windows display adapter capable of 1360 x 768 with True Color capabilities and DirectX® 9 ¹. DirectX 11 compliant card recommended.
Disk Space Installation 4.0 GB
 
qclabrat

qclabrat

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soundz said:
29er

I would focus your money on GPU for ETH mining.
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ha, my brother was looking to do bitcoin mining with his friends, showed him the price of the GPUs and how many he needed for a farm
He went back to conventional stock trading with normal money
 
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