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A slight decrease, if any, is exactly what I would expect. My suggestion was to msmanor, since he's working on performance theory in a lab - presumably a classroom.
I've ran this benchmark so many times and 2d performance is almost always based only on cpu speed. Fastest clock per core. I get 12 minutes on 4gb ram in 32 bit xp pro with autocad 2008 on fx1400,fx1800 and fx3800 (which burnt itself out after 15 benchmark trials).
Buy a Pentium D 3.7GHz and Sata 2 hard drive (must) an Geforce card will do the trick jsut fine. No need for z400 or anything special for 2d application. 3d rendering is a different story.
Custom (ASUS P5K Motherboard)
E8400 @ 3.91Ghz (434 FSB)
2GB Corsair Dominator RAM (OC'd)
GeForce 8800GTS 320mb Driver 6.14.0011.7824 (OC'd)
C2008 Total Index = 251
3d Index = 240
2d Index = 300
Disk Index = 199
CPU Index = 265
Single Loop Time = 76 Min
after reading all the posts.. is it better to have a lower or higher single loop time.. i see all this data but i don't understand what is considered good or bad.
T3400
xp sp3
Intel core 2 quad Q9450 @2.66
Nvidia fx 570 (256mb)
75gb hard drive (speed unknown 4 gig free space left)
Intel ICH9 SATA AHCI Controller
3D=112
2D=120
Disk=165
CPU=174
Total=143
single loop @ 76min.
System: Custom Build
CPU type/speed: Intel Core i7 CPU - 920 @ 2.67 GHz (8 CPUs)
System RAM: 12288 MB
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II Extreme
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 w/ 1536 MB Dedicated
Graphics card driver: Nvidia 8.16.11.9166 10/30/2009
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-Bit
Resolution: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Autocad MEP 2010
C2008 Total Index = 224
3D Graphics Index = 366
2D Graphics Index = 227
Disk Index = 59
CPU Index = 242
Single Loop Time = 45
I ran this benchmark because I just built this PC, & it doesn't seem like it's performing the way that it should. Maybe it's just in my head. But I was wondering if anyone could help me out with my results. Are these results appropriate for the hardware that I have? Also, does anyone have any personal advice (and/or links, etc..) for speeding up autocad in 3D, or 2D? What should be set for 3D performance settings in Acad? Thanks!
Last edited by sixpackcuda; 2010-01-22 at 09:59 PM.
i think your 2.67 is the limiting factor there.
I agree. Autocad doesn't care how many cores you have, it just likes them to be running fast.
My work purchased a E5502 Xeon system (1.86Ghz) for me even after I told them it wasn't powerful enough for what I'd be using it for. After being right I pulled the Fx1800 from the new machine and stuck it in the old 3.2Ghz single core machine. Ran far better. Xeon machine is lying behind me unused.
I just dropped an overclocked HD4870 1Gb card into my machine at home. I'll run the test again to compare results I posted above, but I doubt there'll be much difference.
Last edited by Davie 73; 2010-02-09 at 04:26 PM.
Thanks for the info guys
My Asus mobo actually comes with a couple overclocking profiles for the i7 920. I've got it set to run at 3.2GHz at the moment. It seems to be entirely stable, and a bit faster. I have little overclocking knowledge or experience, so I would try to increase it to a 3.8 manually, if I knew how.
Does anyone know if it would have any effect if I disabled the 4 virtual cores (the hyperthreading, i think?) Would that increase, decrease, or have no effect on Acad?