Hardware Question

Hi Group,

I am thinking of purchasing a Dell computer to be used mostly for
SolidWorks 2005. I know this is very broad question but is anyone using
a Dell system, what model and configuration, and degree of success?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

 

We have
Dell Precision 330
P3 1.2 ghz
Nvidia 2.0 Pro graphics 64mb
XP Pro SP1.0
512mb RAM not sure what type

I run it hard and even though it is about 3 years outdated. (they are
outdated out of the box aren't they) it runs like a champ the on site
service was wonderful my nvidia started to whine one of the fans was
starting to go and Dell was here the same day I don't know exactly how fast
but I was impressed, the guy swapped out the card no Qusetions asked and I
was up and running. Anyway I am happy with Dell the only drawback with dell
is you are limited as to what components you can order because they only
deal with Pentium and whoever else they are in bed with but as far as I can
tell all their mistresses are good quality girls.

Corey

 

I meant to mention that I would prefer to have more than a gig of ram with
SW the OS, Outlook, and IE running all the time 512 leaves something to be
desired. Get as much ram as you can.

 

Our most recent ones here are:

Dell 360
3 GHz Pentium 4
2 GB RAM
30GB SCSI drive
ATI FireGL X2 AGP Pro

We ordered the machines with nVidia FX500 cards, and I ran that until the
FireGL cards came in. I was a bit surprised - it wasn't bad, especially for
the price.

Overall, I am quite pleased with the machine. I was given the opportunity
to have some input into the specs, but was told we were going to buy Dell,
therefore no AMD. Oh well, this is a good machine - no real complaints.

WT

 

We recently bought a Dell 370 for our FEA machine. It mostly runs Ansys and
a little SolidWorks. We haven't had any problems with it. It's got an ATI
FireGL 3100, 4GB of RAM and a 160GB RAID 0 disk.

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

 

One Dell Precision 530 2x2,8Ghz xeon and 2gig ram....nvidia quadro4 900XGL
(128Mb) and one Dell M60 PentiumM 1,7 GHZ...2Gig ram ...nvidia quadro FX
Go700 (128Mb)....also 2Gig ram
Both machines running daily without any problems.... pretty large assys
+7000 components and quite heavy photorenderings

Krister L

 

Thanks Group, Helps to know what some people are using - I hear
different stories about what works and what doesn't.