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Brian Putnam 20 years ago

Here are the testing results from my new workstation. Computer info: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+(DC3700) from Xi systems

4.0 GB ECC PC3200 400MHz Ram nVidia Quadro FX 1400 150 GB 10kRPM Western Digital Raptor drive Dual boot with XP Pro and XP64

Old computer: P4 2.53GHz(2002 Xi System), 1.5GB PC2100 RAM, nVidia Quadro4 750XGL

All of the tests were ran on SW2006, SP3.4, 1280x1024 resolution Ship in a bottle: Old Computer: 51.86/49.94/39.80/39.76 New XP Pro: 31.67/29.86/23.50/23.53 New XP64: 31.79/30.50/24.14/24.13

Patbench (Rebuild #-Time in seconds) Old Computer

8-9.32, 9-17.47, 10-42.16, 11-219.11, 12-Unable to obtain required mem.

New XP Pro

8-7.29, 9-11.51, 10-22.16, 11-109.41, 12-264-98, 13-541.66, 14-Unable to obtain required memory.

New XP64

8-7.49, 9-11.67, 10-22.40, 11-106.86, 12-266.63, 13-631.35, 14-1919.33, 15-Unable to obtain required memory.

My c> I am planning on purchasing a new computer. The main reason for

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Dale Dunn 20 years ago

Interesing data. I'm actually impressed that Windows 64 can run the 32-bit SW with speed comparable to it's native environment.

Is there any chance you can install 64-bit 2006 and run a set of tests for that? I suspect that 64-bit SW could complete level 15 of the Patbench, and I'm curious to see if there is a performance difference between 32 and 64 bit SW.

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Jerry Steiger 20 years ago

We ran some tests back when we got our 64-bit machine. There was no big performance difference between SW06 64bit beta and SW06 2.1. 64bit was usually, but not always, 5-10% slower.

We only ran Patbench up to level 12 on that machine.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

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Dale Dunn 20 years ago

Thanks. That pretty much answers the question. Time for SW to get busy with multi-cores.

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Jerry Steiger 20 years ago

That was on the first version of SW06beta. I see that sw07 beta v4 is up now. Perhaps they have made some changes. Unfortunately, we probably won't have time to do any testing till after SW7 ships.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

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Brian Putnam 20 years ago

I ran the Patbench on SolidWorks 2006x64 SP4.1

8-8.18 to 6.55, 9-10.98 to 8.91, 10-22.57 to 16.85. 11-109.04 to 104.98, 12-256.76, 13-832.9 14-4132.47

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