Sat May 30, 2009 10:37 am
JustAnEngineer wrote:edh wrote:Regardless, he needs torque over horsepower and he gets that with the Core i7 and the memory.
I don't follow your analogy here, but it probably just extends the widespread misunderstanding of torque. What's the equivalent of gear ratio in your analogy? In the physical world, all that you need to get more torque to the drive wheels is to use a lower gear.
Yeah, well, it's a very imperfect analogy ... sorry about that. AutoDesk products respond better to more cores (dual Xeon/Opteron over single, 4 cores over 2, hyper-threading over non-HT) than to speed, not that increased MHz isn't a boost, too. And, they'll use pretty much all available memory, the more the better.
Having built computers for engineers and architects who use AutoDesk products, my experience indicates that money is better spent on more cores, more memory and more speed, in that order, leaving additional graphics power (which makes all those rotatable 3D buildings look so pretty) for last. Drivers for nVidia's and ATI's professional graphics cards include optimizations for AutoDesk products (and many other graphics-intensive programs aimed at professionals) not found in their gaming card drivers.
pc-v600b, ss-860xp, max V gene, 3770k, 4x8gb ddr3 2400, i520 240gb ssd (os/apps), i520 480gb ssd (workspace), 2x3tb wd30efrx (raid-1) & i525 60gb ssd (cache), 2x GV-R795WF3-3GD, 2x u3014, leopold/cherry brown kb, g400, intuos5 pth650, win.7.x64.ult