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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
I don't even know what that is. I guess a game of some sort. I don't even have Freecell on my computers. It is ironic that we end up having to buy gaming computers to get the power to run the software we use. We are working on a job that just the south 1/2 of the project is over 200 gig of data and the desktop server size computer churns on it for a week.
Gaming rigs have high end GPU's.

Rendering, shading, pushing polygons, on the fly is what they are meant to do.

Depending on the SW suite a lot of times these days the GPU is far more critical than CPU.

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