M17X and Architectural Software

I'm considering purchasing a M17X for personal use and for work. My only real concern at this time is whether the software I use for design will function properly on this system. My intent would be to go with the NVIDIA Geforce cards.

The software programs I most commonly use are Autocad 2012, 3ds Max, Revit, Google Sketchup, and Photoshop.

Can anyone offer their experience with running any of these programs on the M17X? Have you had any issues?

 

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these programs will run just fine on the alienware. Aside from the flashy lights, the Alienware is just a computer made up of components.

Sounds like you need a beefy CPU and at least 8 gigs of ram though. These apps should run very well on a nvidia 580...but shouldn't you be thinking about a quadro?

 

oh yes, a quadro or a firepro (my old laptop could have worked miracles in solid and catia back in the time...) however a quadro 5010m is about 2k...

 

that's one expensive graphics card must be one best of a rendering card though

 

yepp, it costs one leg, two arms, one liver (as if someone has any other ) and on top of that one of your eyes (replaces ), but yes, it has 4GB GDDR5

 

wonder how that 680m compares with its own 4g of Vram (if thats what it really even has)

 

I was looking at the dell systems with the quadro and firepro, but when I compared them to the alienware, and even the xps systems, it seemed you got more for your money on a comprable system from alienware. There just seemed to be more options.

When I checked the system requirements for autocad 2012, I mainly say the quadro and firepro cards. It looked like there were a couple of older geforce cards also listed. So naturally I was curious if anyone was using the geforce cards with autocad or the other programs I listed.

 

It should work fine with Geforce cards, if not you could easily mod the Quadro drivers to work on a Geforce card... no biggie