What is the very best computer for running Solidworks 2012 sp4

Hello Juanmanuel,

I cannot give you a simple answer to this, but I can guide you to 2 specific items:

First, your graphic car is a gaming one. GeForce line from NVIDIA is intended for gaming. Ideally, you want a buy a Quadro. You can look here to verify if the card you want to buy fits. Graphics Card Drivers | SolidWorks

Then your CPU. Intel i7 is great but this is not intended for strong workload. I would have a tendency to recomment using a Intel Xeon type processor for professional use but I do not have a strong argument to backup this.

Also, make sure to work locally, meaning on your local drive and NOT on the network. For extra speed, use a SSD! And use the fastest memory that your motherboard can support.

That is probably not all but that's a start!

Juanmanuel,

You might want to move this thread to the Administration forum, as that is the one where questions about hardware and performance are answered best. Move will be available to you under the Actions to the right of the page. If you wish you can leave it here and ask again in Administration, but that leaves you two threads to follow and can lead to confusion.

Jerry S.

Results vary for people regarding branded computers. Where I work, we use Dell. Personally, I've used Dell for years as well, with few problems. Go to the Dell site and do a search for precision workstations.

If you want good advice, take a look at this post from Charles Culp.

We switched from Dell Precision workstations over to HP z620  and have been very pleased.

Your system has pretty good specs already but you'll defintiely need a better video card.  We use nVidia K2000 / K4000 / K5000 here.

Interesting topic my friend

Solidworks , is a sweet lady in disguise.

No matter what you provide, it will never get satisfied

Coz, we have workstations with 24 GB Ram, some 550 MB graphics card or 1 GB (cant recall), i have also worked on computers with core 2 Duo processors with some 2 GB Ram and no graphics cards.

But in end, if Solidworks decides that it wants to crash... Than there is no computer in this world that can make our dear little Solidworks from stopping it.

Bitter Fun apart :

Just few advice from experience, try to work from local disk data , other than fetching data from LAN or server. This will speed up your working. Also suppress parts or assemblies on which you are not working currently.

When in assemblies you can also set components to lightweight which can dramatically improve perfomance.

Another trick I use when in large assemblies is to go into the task manager ( Ctrl + Alt + Delete) find the Solidworks process, right click > set priority > High.

Which seems to make quiet a difference.

As for the specs I have an 3.5 Ghz Intel i7, 16 Gb Ram and an Nvidia Quadro 2000, it's doing pretty well so far

There isn't one made that can run that piece of s*** program with out any problems.

That said get yourself a good gaming box a stick a workstation video card in it.

And if your really want it to fly use a PCI hard drive I recommend a Muskin Scorpin Deluxe.

Juanmanuel,

I don't think anyone mentioned this awesome post on computers for SolidWorks. You already ordered, but still good to know.

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