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Originally posted by john70t
I was wondering what machine you run it on, specs, and limitations encountered.
Anyone using 2006 on a non-Dell?
Just wasted 45min. with an almost-unintelligible phone mumbler who had to be asked the price 5 times, and finally told me in order to purchase a Precision380, I'd have to give them "business funds" information and a SS#(????). What are the alternatives?
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I run SW 2006 both at home and at work on PC's with AMD processors. My machine at home I scratch built with an Asus motherboard and 1 GB of RAM. I would up the RAM capacity...minimum 512 and put in a decent graphics card but not get ridiculous with that ( I have a $100 gaming card with Open GL). If you are buying something pre-made like a Dell I would stick with the "workstation class" type stuff. Additonal RAM is nice when you start doing surface only modeling and tapping the FEA modules and more intense stuff. If you plan to do simple parts and drawings most decent PC's will run it just fine, but if you have some extra $ I still recommend the workstation/business class stuff.
Typically when the video card gets skimped on or has low on board video memory, dynamically rotating your model on screen gets choppy, slow, etc. Crappy cards often have poor or dated video drivers which is what I have noticed cause the most crashes and hangups with SW. Usually a driver update fixes the issue and be sure to download the latest SW service pack once you have installed your copy.