What hardware do you run on?

[pittman]

Here is a good spot to brag about your rig (or #^&@ and moan about it for that matter)

I'm interested to see what kind of workstations are springing for now. Plus I've been experiencing some slowdowns with 2005 and was wondering what kind of performance similar machines are getting.

[Glenn Pope]

3ghz P4
1gb of Ram
32mb Radeon VE (Not good for cad work, but at the time the only card we could get that would run a LCD monitor.)

Runs 2005 at a good pace. I Do mostly 2D work so the weak video card doesn't hurt to much.

[arcadia_x27]

I run a Dell Optiplex GX270, 512MB RAM, geforce FX 5200 videocard 2.8GHz Pentium 4 on Windows XP Professional. I operate ADT 2004 and ADT 2004 as well as ACAD 2004 both of hte 2004 versions run very well on this system but i find ADT 2005 a little slower to start up, open and close drawings, and the layer manager is slow to open up even with the patch to fix the problem with it. I find it doenst feel as "Snappy" as ADT 2004 does. I havent Tried using it as Autocad 2005 though so i cant speak on how that works.

[Wanderer]

here's where I moan and complain.

I was running a p1, with 128ram, and a 3gb hd. video card? who knows.

I finally got boss to agree to get me a new one when every drawing I opened crashed my pc.
But, our IS dept has 'standard' configurations. In short, I am expected to use the same thing my secretary uses. In long, my 'massive' upgrade was to a p4, 512rm, no, I didn't get a new monitor, still this 95lb 20" ibm p202. Also, they forgot my cd burner and there is only a slot for 1 hard drive, so my other hd is sitting in the spare cd bay. niiiice huh? I am making yall green with envy, I can tell.

Anyway, about 6 mos after I get this pc, IS finally updates their standards to some pretty sweet setups, so all of the people who didn't need to upgrade before are being automatically upgraded to a powerful machine and I have to wait 2 years before I can ask again.

running map2005.

I'm done. Thank you for listening.

[Glenn Pope]

Your so lucky!;)

[mjfarrell]

Recently I got bogged down with a 650 acre site to evaluate.
So I had to upgrade my hardware.

I built a system with 800mhz frontside bus with matching Intel P4 - 3ghz CPU
2 Gb of RAM, PNY Quadro based 128mb video that will handle dual monitors
I did get a nice new 19" that will go beyond 1600x1200 at several refresh rates.
Dual 5.2 ms SATA drives with 8mb buffers.
Oh and a few nice things like 6 channel audio, and DVD drive.

For a benchmark consider this a 14Mb file, from clicking open to Command prompt
averages 27 seconds.


Considering it allowed me to actually finish the job in under 6 hours a bargin
at twice the price.

[pittman]

"Snappy" is a great way to describe it. I don't know about ADT 2k5, but that's exactly how I feel about LDD/AutoCAD 2k5 it just feels slower in general.

I'm running a 2Ghz P4 with a Geforce Quadro 700XGL (64MB ram) and 1 gig of DDR ram. Dual monitors (21",19"). I noticed I had unacceptable slowdowns when I ran both monitors at 1600x1200 so i dropped them both to 1280x1024. This has helped some. I also had to turn of Nview desktop manager (which just gave me some nifty tools for managing dual monitors). I just noticed with it turned on, my processor would go through the roof(task manager) everytime I moved my mouse. It hit 100% while my mouse was moving, but with it turned off I hit around 60%. These two fixes gave me back a little performance but it still feels a bit sluggish.

Perhaps this is a good place to get anyone to drop some tweaks they use.

Also anyone using a Nvidia card could you divulge which series drivers you're using, if you've installed powerdraft, or nforce. And if you use hardware or software rendering.

[arcadia_x27]

I use hardware rendering on mine. I tried both software and hardware, the hardware was way faster, Drivers are the current NVIDIA ones off the Dell website.

[rosterreicher]

I'm Running Dell PWS 650 2x Xeon 3.06, 2gb, Striped sata 120G's, FX3000, XP Pro. It took a lot of sweet talking & complaining to the IT mgr to get this.
Most of my work is in MDT & IV.

[mjfarrell]

I loaded the powerdraft drivers, and enabled hardware acceleration.
In simple terms, real time pans and zooms, are like liquid.
This is as close to NOT having a computer as I've ever been.

[pittman]

Has anyone had any experience running the powerdraft install with LDD/ACAD 2k5?

The drivers state that they are for 2000 only.

MJ: I wanted to use hardware rendering for that very reason (smoother pan and zooms) but I didnt notice much of a difference. Do you do adaptive degradation?

[MarkTheSwampThomas]

I like to brag about mine <g> http://www.theswamp.org/swamp.files/mark/precision650.html but 2005 still loads quite slow even on this smoke wagon.

[Hippigypsy]

[QUOTE=mes0945]here's where I moan and complain.

I was running a p1, with 128ram, and a 3gb hd. video card? who knows.

I finally got boss to agree to get me a new one when every drawing I opened crashed my pc.
But, our IS dept has 'standard' configurations. In short, I am expected to use the same thing my secretary uses. In long, my 'massive' upgrade was to a p4, 512rm, no, I didn't get a new monitor, still this 95lb 20" ibm p202. Also, they forgot my cd burner and there is only a slot for 1 hard drive, so my other hd is sitting in the spare cd bay. niiiice huh? I am making yall green with envy, I can tell............

Hey, that sounds like my upgrade - but I have a "sweet" Hitachi Superscan Elite 21 that takes up half my desk. The just don't make 'em like they used too..lol

[hand471037]

Sager 4080 laptop. P4 3.0 Ghz HT desktop Processor, gig of Ram, and a ATI 9600 Mobile Radeon w/128 megs ram.

Runs Revit like the dickens. I love it. Also with the HT proc I can be rendering stuff in the background while I work in the foreground with minimal slowdown.

But it's still slow opening the layer dialog in ADT 2005 :-P

[richard.binning]

compaq nc6000

Pentium M1.6 (centrino)

1 Gig Ram

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 64mb

30 gig harddrive

ADT/ABS/LDT 2004/2005
Revit 6
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