Hello,
I have just bought my first licence, which will be Solidworks 2021 (Professional, not Premium). I do modelling, surfacing and assemblies (not huge) mostly. I also do some rendering but that is not my job.
I have the chance to buy a PC, for a good price, but it has a processor 3.0 GHz speed (no boost) whereas the Solidworks hardware page says it should be 3.3 GHz at least.
The rest of the specification of that PC meets the Solidworks recommendation:
Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tower Gen 2 Workstation Desktop PC
Intel Core i7-9700
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
DVDRW NVIDIA Quadro P1000 4GB
Windows 10 Pro
So I am wondering if anybody has loaded 2021 on the old hardware for previous versions and checked if the software struggled on it.
I wonder of people who get the new versions of Solidworks have to replace the hardware or whether the hardware can cope with 1, 2 or 3 new versions.
Thanks
Hi,
the i7-9700 was introduced 2019 into the market. It has 8 cores, as base speed of 3 GHz and a turbo frequency up to 4,7 GHz. With this said, it‘s a very good choice for SWX. And the rest sound good to, but not stellar. It depends on your models if 16 GB will do, and also the P1000 is a supported but more a basic choice. Maybe it will struggle when a UHD or two monitors are attached. And in terms of rendering (with SWX Visualize) you will not gain the best performance.But in this case it can be updated with a more capable GPU.