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    AutoCAD

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by fred2028, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

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    I have a Centrino C2D T5750 with 3 GB RAM and GeForce 9500M GS. Should be able to run it right? Is it graphics intensive? I wanna know if it'll tax my gfx or CPU the most ...
     
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    The 3D rendering, if you are doing that, is graphics-intensive. Even integrated graphics will do normal 2D work.

    John
     
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    When I used AutoDesk Inventor it used mostly RAM and GPU the most.
     
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  4. Thaenatos

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    What type of Autocad are you doing? If its 2d youll be more then fine, but if you deal with MEP 3d youll run into a few slow downs here and there but youll still be able to run the software. To put things into perspective the workstations here have 3.0GHz C2D 45nm with 3GB of ram and 7950GTX cards and sometimes there are slow downs in MEP. But then again we also have to render and load a drawing and layers for a 1.25million square foot building.
     
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  5. wishmaker619

    wishmaker619 Notebook Guru

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    hey
    no worries, i have the same notebook with same specs and every thing in autoCAD and on 3Ds MAX runs very well
    trust me(and guess what as i am writing this post i have 3ds max running behind)
    hope this helped

    AD
     
    wishmaker619, Aug 18, 2008
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