Dell M65 vs M70

Hello All,

I know that this has been talked about to death, but...
It looks like I can buy a refurb M65 for about the same as a refurb M70.
I know that SW will not take advantage of the duo processor.
How is the Nvidia Quadro 350M vs Quadro FX Go 1400.

All opinions welcome, especially those from owners of either.

TIA,
Muggs

 

I have an M70 and it runs SolidWorks 2007 Beta just fine. I don't know
about the comparison directly but I was sad that the M70 was neither
Hyper Threaded or Duo Core. SolidWorks currently takes advantage of
Duo Core in cases like PhotoWorks and Assembly Drawings. You won't see
a difference when it comes to strait up part modeling, except that your
other applications will nearly never see a slowdown because SolidWorks
is thinking.

Regards,
Corey

 

Hey Muggs,
My notes from SWW this year and recent system testing (single vs
dual core processor) led us to choose the dual core for the following
reasons: COSMOS performance (significant increase) with dual core, SW
multithreaded components including PhotoWorks, file translation, HLR
(high-quality views).
We have the nVidia FX 1400 128MB (regular card) on our new systems
also, it seems to be working fine.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dan

 

I thought a note made about a month ago by one user stated that the M65
was faster, so search prior messages.

Bo