RAM FOR SW 2006

I have 504 ram on my computer, XP Pro, can I get by with this amount
of RAM for SW 2006?

 

Billy,

Solidworks may start, but that's about it. You'll be paging pretty quick
once you start working.You need at least a gig with XP. Two or three for any
serious work

Mark

 

Although 1gb is most certainly better thatn 512 mb, on the home machine I do
quiet a bit of 'side' work with just 512 mb. Just lastnight I was working
on a pretty complicated molded part. I had it opened as well as a similar
part and an assembly going with both parts in it. I didn't note any
extensive disc activity and everything was very snappy. Maybe its the 7200
rpm SATA drives that make this workable.

Try it and see how it does, you can always add more RAM and its cheap.

Jeff

 

As with anything it depends what your needs are. If you are sticking
mostly to simple assemblies ( <100 components) or small to medium part
files then I think you will be fine. Memory is quite cheap now, an
additional 512mb can be had for around $50. My advice would be try
using your existing machine and if you find things are going very
slowly then upgrade the memory. This of course assumes that you keep a
"neat" computer without tons of startup items like quicktime,
realplayer ms office quick launch, adobe launch, aim, the list goes on
and on. All those apps chew memory and will heavily eat into a 512mb
system.