SW 2006 64-bit beta processor requirements

The SW2006 64-bit beta states a processor requirement of an AMD Opteron
or Intel Xeon EM64T. Does anyone know if this literally means the
software will not operate on the Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Pentium 4
series EM64T, and Pentium D series EM64T chips? As the software is not
yet available, even my VAR is uncertain.

 

I would bet that it will run fine of the Athlon's it just won't be
"supported"

KM

 

Yuo can download the preliminary version now after registration
John

 

Wouldn't that kind of make a large majority of 64bit chip owners
unsupported? I can't believe they're only supporting Opterons.

Isn't the only basic difference that Opteron can run SMP? Whereas athlon
is single cpu only?

-john

 

One of our IT guys brought in his game computer to see how it ran
SolidWorks. It had a 2.4 GHz, non-Opteron, 64 bit AMD processor with 1 GB of
RAM and a couple of RAID 0 disks. He had overclocked it to 2.5 GHz. It was
1.9 times as fast as our 2 GHz, 32 bit AMD machines doing the ship in a
bottle (26.5 sec. vs. 49.7), 1.7 times as fast rebuilding one of our larger
parts (3:05 vs. 5:14), and 1.55 times as fast opening a large assembly (4:10
vs. 6:27).


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

 

"64 bit AMD processor " I had similar results comparing the 64 AMD against
P4s.

It is a great CPU for the money.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

There were three replies to a similar question in the SolidWorks Community.
All were running Athlon rather than Opteron and all were very positive.
Given the price difference between Athlon and Opteron processors and the
lack of multi-core or multi-processor support from SolidWorks, it seems like
it would be in the best interest of SolidWorks to support the Athlon 64-bit
systems.

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