4 Replies Latest reply on Feb 25, 2008 11:14 PM by Jerry Steiger

Solidworks 2008 & Hardware Requirements

Ignatius Gerald Feb 15, 2008 2:43 PM

I am looking forward for user experiences after they upgraded to SW2008, not with respect to feature set available in 08 but with respect to hardware.

To explain a bit, whether the performance is better or worse, what hardware is required to safely upgrade to SW08?

We just cannot keep up with SW and its hardware requirements over its every new release. We are still in SW06, and now testing the waters to move to SW08, this should not render with a whole bunch of useless computers mostly dell precisions 350 and above.

Your comments are much appreciated.

Gerald
CSWP

Solidworks 2008 & Hardware Requirements

Charles Culp Feb 15, 2008 3:36 PM (in response to Ignatius Gerald)

Gerald,

You will need 1GB of ram minimum, but that little RAM may be painful. I strongly suggest 2GB (which is how much I have), and 4GB is even better. You will also need a certified video card: http://www.solidworks.com/page.../VideoCardTesting.html

The rest of the options are all tradeoffs. A fast proccessor is the most important part, read one of the other threads for suggestions if you want to purchase a new system, there are plenty of those threads.
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  Ignatius Gerald Feb 20, 2008 1:58 PM (in response to Charles Culp)
  
  I wonder that no one had any issues moving to SW2008.
  
  Please post any of your succeses or pains.
  
  Any inputs will be much appreciated.
  
  Gerald
  CSWP
  
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    1-70W0UV Feb 20, 2008 4:03 PM (in response to Ignatius Gerald)
    
    Gerald,
    
    Moving from SW2006 to SW2008 my RAM usage went up 300-500MB. Overall SW is somewhat slower not to bad for the work I do. If I turn on RealView there is a performance hit.
    
    As far as SW stability, SW2008 seems to have better 64bit support then SW2006sp4.0 did. With SW2008sp2.1 I have very little trouble with it crashing. SW on my computer does seem to have a memory leak/management problem. When it crashes it's usually something that requires a lot of memory or SW has been running continuously for a week or two.
    
    There are a few other querks, but it sounds like most of them should be worked out in SP3.0.
    
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Jerry Steiger Feb 25, 2008 11:14 PM (in response to Ignatius Gerald)

I haven't actually switched to 2008 but one of the other engineers has been playing with it. Our parts are fairly complex, so we need to use the 3GB switch with 4 GB of RAM to work with our final assembly. Craig didn't have any problem in 2008 until he tried using RealView on the final assembly. SW crashes and he hasn't worked out how to get it to survive.
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