I run a workstation with Tyan MB with dual Intel quadcore and 16Gb RAM. Grapics is a Quadro FX4500 with 512Mb. My misstake was installing Vista x64 and run SolidWorks 2008. The main issues in SW have been reduced with Vista SP1. Now I've SW 2009 also and it looks pretty stable but still not stable in the level of my old XP x64 or my laptop with XP x32.
SolidCAM 2008 (r12) runs on x64, and working good on XP but still have some graphic issues on Vista, especially on simulation. SolidCAM 2009 (beta) have same grapic problems and this is reported. Could be a driver issue, but latest nVidia drivers is loaded so we'll see what happening. My advice is to stay out of Vista on a CAD/CAM Workstation for as long you can.
Yes, and another thing. Still there is no actual gain with 8 processor cores as the software still have alot to catch up too. On x64 OS there are treads and processes running on different cores with 64-bit programs, but they still have to wait for each other to get the job done. The overall gain is not worth the extra money if you're not into Cosmos etc. Better to have less cores and high CPU-clock frequency.
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