Hi All,
I've recently cobbled together a second CAD computer for acolleague. It's the same spec as mine - Dell Optiplex 745, etc etc,only difference at present is it only has 1Gb or RAM vs my 2Gb. Ihave ordered RAM to bring them both up to 3Gb. Both are 2yrs old,not hot by todays standard but good enough to do the job foranother year till i7 CPU's and Win7 64 bit is out and stable, atwhich point we'll upgrade.
My machine runs an FX3500, and I couldn't spring for a new FX3700for this machine. Reading the tips here, it seemd the FX570 was agood bang for buck option, with the added bonus of not requiring anadditional power plug, which required a power supply upgrade in mymachine.
To my surprise the FX570 runs really great, easily outperformingthe far more expensive 2yr old FX3500. The machine with the 570 isrunning two 1920x1080 19" LCD's, while my machine runs one2560x1600 - both a similar number of pixles.
To rotate a large assembly on my machine, many of the parts dropback to a 'block' form untill the part stops rotating (bothmachines run a spacenavigator), while on the machine with a FX570everything stays in full detail.
My FX3500 only started doing the 'drop to block form' after Ireformatted and installed SWX2009, prior to that it didn't do it. Iam running driver 6.14.11.6265, which is the only one of the two'certified' drivers which do not cause my machine to crash.
So is it reasonable that an FX570 should outperform a FX3500, or isthere something not right with my 3500? It does seem odd thatperformance dropped quite a bit after the 2009 install. I am usingthe default settings in driver 162.65 with setting 'DassaultSystemes Solidworks' aside from having 'Vertical Sync' set to'Force off' as advised here.
Sorry for the long post. Any opinions welcomed.
Cheers
SteveSolidworksAdministration
I've recently cobbled together a second CAD computer for acolleague. It's the same spec as mine - Dell Optiplex 745, etc etc,only difference at present is it only has 1Gb or RAM vs my 2Gb. Ihave ordered RAM to bring them both up to 3Gb. Both are 2yrs old,not hot by todays standard but good enough to do the job foranother year till i7 CPU's and Win7 64 bit is out and stable, atwhich point we'll upgrade.
My machine runs an FX3500, and I couldn't spring for a new FX3700for this machine. Reading the tips here, it seemd the FX570 was agood bang for buck option, with the added bonus of not requiring anadditional power plug, which required a power supply upgrade in mymachine.
To my surprise the FX570 runs really great, easily outperformingthe far more expensive 2yr old FX3500. The machine with the 570 isrunning two 1920x1080 19" LCD's, while my machine runs one2560x1600 - both a similar number of pixles.
To rotate a large assembly on my machine, many of the parts dropback to a 'block' form untill the part stops rotating (bothmachines run a spacenavigator), while on the machine with a FX570everything stays in full detail.
My FX3500 only started doing the 'drop to block form' after Ireformatted and installed SWX2009, prior to that it didn't do it. Iam running driver 6.14.11.6265, which is the only one of the two'certified' drivers which do not cause my machine to crash.
So is it reasonable that an FX570 should outperform a FX3500, or isthere something not right with my 3500? It does seem odd thatperformance dropped quite a bit after the 2009 install. I am usingthe default settings in driver 162.65 with setting 'DassaultSystemes Solidworks' aside from having 'Vertical Sync' set to'Force off' as advised here.
Sorry for the long post. Any opinions welcomed.
Cheers
SteveSolidworksAdministration
