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Old 11-24-2008, 01:51 PM   #111 (permalink)
trebuchet03
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
Too bad I don't have Cosmos... I do SW work all day long and the machine is built for it (2 dual core Xeons @ 2.3 ghz, 4 gb ram, scsi hd, and a Quatro FX 1500), and I'm just a designer. You should see the guy's machine running Ansys (our FEA software), its amazing.
mmmm I wish I had Ansys My school hasn't upgraded yet because of budget - but I doubt they would put that on student boxes...

What version of SW do you have? And, will it utilize both processors and all four cores? I'm on 2007 with a single core hyperthreading processor - SW won't take advantage of the "2" processors available Which I guess means that it wasn't coded to multi-thread.

I'm just curious if I should wait for a used dual core processor desktop rather than a fast single core. That is if the next versions of SW will utilize the hardware

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