Best Computer set up?
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Question for all you computer techs...I have been using a dell XPS with nvidia graphics card. My XPS has been set up to handle sketchup pretty well but bogs down when my models get too detailed. My XPS cost me $1600.00 so it is a decent machine with some power. I recently started a new job. They hired me for my abilities with google sketch-up etc. I do renderings and use the lightup plug-in. In order to do my job they bought me what they thought was the 2nd most powerful laptop which is the Dell precision 6500 work station. It is a fast processing system but the graphic card is sub par. My question for you is what is the best set up for a laptop? What is the best graphic card and what processors do i want etc? How do I professionally set up a lap top to work efficiently on most size models? I understand that I may need to use a desk top computer but it is possible to stick with the Dell 6500? I need to use it in the field at times and it is a fast computer but we just need to know how to set it up. We plan to use Sketch-up for now but if our 3-D requirements send us in the direction of using Ironcad or solidworks will a well set up laptop suffice for those programs. I want to add the Dell precision 6500 is fully upgrade-able if anyone is wondering. If everyone agrees that a desktop computer is the only way we need to be open to what the best possible set up would be. We need to do something and do it quick as my models and renderings are getting to complex slowing me down drastically. Thanks.
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I model wrought iron gates and fences. I deal with millions of line segments especially when I import a dwg from a supplier. It just bogs down after my project gets to detailed. The other problem is my personal Laptop shows in sketchup nice clean lines and is great to work with. I know its the nvidia card and the fact the my cpu was set up to do well with gaming. I am just frustrated that my Dell 6600 workstation is not as crisp and is much slower. Are you running with a Laptop? I guess im just looking for someone on here to tell me exactly what they have that runs even better than my personal Laptop. My Dell 6600 is using a AMD(ATI) Fire pro M8900 fireGL.
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Hi Tony, firstly my 'out clause'....I am definatley not a computer guru . I have recently posted "what graphics card" (might pay to check out that thread) I was having the same issue as you. I am now running 16 gig of RAM with a gainward Z77 nvidia 660 on a high speck
quad core I5 3.4 GHZ. I WAS running an small AZUS graphics card. When I changed to the "bells and whistles" Nvidia 660 not much changed. . I am assuming you are doing commercial developments/streetscapes, as I sometimes do which end up being BIG models, you wish to turn on shadows to set them for rendering....."sketchup not responding" If that is the case it seems Sketchup itself is the limiting factor and it does not have a big GPU dependency at all.
I hope the developers can do something about this as it seems to me computer graphics/RAM/processing has caught up to the limitation of SU for large Architectural models with lots of detail. Thats my experience for what it is worth. Click on this link.http://www.vtc.com/products/GoogleSketchUpPro8/Introduction/99227
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