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Help with Dell Precision 690 configuration for SW

Hi,

I must to build a configuration for buy a Dell Precision 690, and, based with te limits of price and configuration here in Brazil, i'm between these configurations below.

*We work with assemblyes like 600-1500 features and 100-500 parts. We don't use for render purposes (sometimes). We run Cosmos too. **They must be Dell (for an internal reason)

Configuration 1:

2x Xeon 5050 3ghz, 667mhz, 2MB L2 2GB DDR2 533MHZ ECC 80GB SATA 3GB/S 7200RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO FX550(D), 128MB, PCIe x16 LCD ULTRA SHARP 20"

Price: R$9700 (like $4400)

Configuration 2:

1x Xeon 5050, 3GHZ, 667MHZ, 2MB L2 2GB DDR2 533MHZ ECC 80GB SATA 3GB/S 7200RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO FX3500 256MB PCIe x16 LCD ULTRA SHARP 20"

Price: R$11222 (like $5100)

Configuration 3:

2x Xeon 5060, 3.2GHZ, 1066MHZ, 2MB L2 2GB DDR2, 533MHZ ECC 80GB SATA 3GB/S 7200RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO FX550(D), 128MB, PCIe x16 LCD ULTRA SHARP 20"

Price: R$12180 (like $5550)

What you think about the RAM? We think to work in the future x64, but I'm not sure how it will be advantageous for our application... maybe

4gb will be better? And about the general configuration?

I=B4m working arround somthing near $4500-5000 price (here for Brazil).

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english

Triad

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mauricio.trindade
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If forced to use Dell, I would go with 390. Zeon dosen't seem to offer much improvement for using Solidworks.

If you plan to go 64bit then choose,

2.66ghz dual core cpu 4gb x 4 dimms ram (8gb x 4 dimms max) xp32 (upgrade to xp64 at your convienence) Note: if you're not concerned about 64 bit drivers or issues with solidworks 64, then get xp64 now (the option exists to choose either xp32 or xp64)

skip fx550 & go with fx3450

hard drive(s), depends on if server is used for main storage.

starts at $2478 US

my .02

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kenneth

Hi Kenneth, thanks for the reply.

Yes i'm forced to use Dell. Incredible, but the brazilian Dell doesn't have an x64 version of XP for customers. Anyway, it can be solved afterwards. How can I convince my boss that Xeon isn't a big advantage? Anyone know a article or something about?

Thanks

Mauricio

kenneth escreveu:

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mauricio.trindade

Xeon will be fine if you go with the 51xx or higher. Those are the new Xeon's built on the new Intel CPU architecture. The Xeon 50xx series is old P4 technology and is not the best choose for the money you are spending on your Dell's.

You want to get Core 2 Duo technology for your CPU's be it a Dell 390 system or better. Stay away from the older P4 cpu's.

Regards,

Anna Wood

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Anna Wood

Thanks for the answers.

I built another configurations with Precision 390 avaliable here. My main doubt is about CPU vs RAM vs GPU. When I increase CPU i need to decrease RAM and GPU, then when I increase GPU and RAM, i need to decrease CPU. All because the money.

If is possible look below, and tell me wich is the better ways:

Configuration 1:

Core 2 Duo E6700, 2.66GHZ, 4MB L2, 1066MHZ

2GB DDR2 667MHZ ECC (2X 1GB) 80GB SATA 3GB/S 7200RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO NVS285 128MB LCD ULTRA SHARP 20"

Price: R$9750 (like $4420)

Configuration 2:

Core 2 Duo E6300, 1.86GHZ, 2MB L2, 1066MHZ

4GB DDR2 667MHZ ECC (4X 1GB) 160GB SATA 3GB/S 10000RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO FX3450 256MB PCIe x16 LCD ULTRA SHARP 20"

Price: R$10000 (like $4550)

Configuration 3:

Core 2 Extreme X6800, 2.93GHZ, 4MB L2, 1066MHZ

2GB DDR2, 667MHZ ECC 80GB SATA 3GB/S 7200RPM 8MB NVIDIA QUADRO NVS285,128MB LCD ULTRA SHARP 19"

Price: R$10500 (like $4800)

Regards

Mauricio

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mauricio.trindade

You do not need to pay the money for the Core 2 Duo Extreme. Stay away from the QUADRO NVS285 video card. That is not a true Quadro CAD card.

See what the following will get you for price:

Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz/1066MHz/2MB L2/Dual-core/VT nVidia Quadro FX550, 128MB PCIe

4GB, 667MHz, DDR2 SDRAM Memory, ECC (4 DIMMS) 80GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache plus a monitor

If that is to expensive go with 2 gigs of memory and/or drop the processor to a Core 2 Duo E6300.

Regards,

Anna Wood

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Anna Wood

Thanks for the help Anna, I will do this.

Best Regards,

Mauricio

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mauricio.trindade

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