Hi,
Anyone have any insight on running solidworks on a Dell 4550? We are running but it is slow and choppy. Looking to upgrade the video card to either Nvidia Quadro4 750 XGL or Quadro FX500.
Anyone have any experiences with these cards on a dell dimension? Just want to make sure they were compatible before buying. Any other thoughts are welcome.
Running 768mb of ram ... rest of the machine is standard .. Thanks for the help,
JSL
runnin a 4550 for 2 years now
1gb ram fx2000 xp pro sp1dosen't seem to be quite as good as it was when new
The computer is OK, it's what is loaded on it that isn't quite as good. There are several possibilities. Do you defrag your disk often? If not, that could be a big source of slowdowns. Have you loaded lots of neat programs? They can often steal resources that SolidWorks needs to run well. What version of SW are you running? With SW04, file sizes took a big jump up, which seems to bog our systems down. You may be running into swap now, where you didn't earlier and this will cause massive slowdowns. Also, with each new major release, SW also seems to get slower.
For the original poster, adding RAM might be more important than changing your video card. It all depends on how much RAM you normally use. Look at the Windows Task Manager when your system seems to be running slow. Is your Total Commit Charge getting close to your Total Physical Memory? Is your disk access light flashing a lot when you work? If so, adding memory could speed your machine up considerably.
Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"
defrag every other week (if needed) no neat programs, just basics, very lean sw 04 sp5, xp pro sp2
recently flattened system, runnin a little better now
btw, this system started out with sw '01+, which ran a bit faster than '03 & even faster than '04
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