I7 system for SketchUp work
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I have been looking for a better computer system to use for sketchup work. The sketchup file I am working on is more than 40MB and when I need to copy and multiply a component (for example a tree to multiple trees), it takes forever. Orbiting is also not going very well. I heard about I7 and did some search and found the following professionals using I7 with much better video card and a lot of memory. But there was no article or discussion on how well Sketchup runs on I7. I tried to contact these people, but no success. Do you think any one of the following system would work better for large Sketchup models?
I also heard that multi-core system can be switched back to single core while working with sketchup (single threaded program) to have a better performance. Do you guys know how to do that? I cannot find any info on that. I am using Quad Core.
To get some ideas on the file size and my work in general, please visit http://www.newvistavillage.com/. Thanks for your time and help.
Landscape Designer and Arborist
VWLMRW 09 SP4
Vista 64 i7-920
6 GB ram Asus 9800 GT 1024 MB
1TB WD HDx2Architect
VW a/r 09 SP4 / Vista 64bit
Intel Core i7 2,6GHz, RAM 6GB
GA HP NVIDIA Quadro FX580 512MB PCI-ESketchUp Expert
CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965
RAM: OCZ Gold DDR3 1600MHz 12Gb
Video: Asus Radeon HD4870 X2 2Gb
Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe 1366 Intel X58 -
modelhead, could you explain the techniques that you mentioned here? Besides turning on hardware acceleration, I wasn't aware that there were techniques that could be applied to speed up a scene. I'm very interested as this could help out with speed issues.
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