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12/28/2009 2:15:14 PM
 
Amy
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Joined 12/28/2009
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Best PC for Revit MEP 2010  

 Have any of you recently upgraded your computers to handle revit MEP 2010 better? if so, can you post your specs. I just bought this guy to test out..hopefully its enough. 


Operating System Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit

Chassis NZXT Apollo Black Performance Base

Power Supply OCZ 850 Watt Power Supply

Motherboard ASUS P6T X58 LGA 1366 Motherboard

Processor Intel CORE I7-975 EXT 3.33

Memory 12GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory (2GB x 6)

Hard Drive 320GB 7200RPM 3G SATA II Hard Drive 

2nd Hard Drive 320GB 7200RPM 3G SATA II Hard Drive

Optical Drive 22X DVDRW SATA Drive Black 

Optical Drive No Second Optical Drive Selected

Storage Controller On Board Storage Controller

Video Diamond ATI Radeon HD5870 Video Card - 1024MB/1GB, GDDR5, PCIe, Dual Link, DVI

Network Integrated 10/100/1000 Network Adapter

12/29/2009 3:11:43 PM
 
superJMuser
422 Posts
Joined 08/19/2009
Re: Best PC for Revit MEP 2010
In Response To:  Amy

Hi Amy,

 

This computer looks really, really nice...I think you will be very pleased with the performance...{drooling...}

 

We are running Dell workstations at my office, with 3 GHZ Qual Core Zeon Processors.  We have 8 GB of RAM but it's clocked at 667 mhz...which is really pretty slow now a days...We don't have RAID set up on the local machine, which I think you will benefit from (assuming that's why you have two identical hard drives...).  Your video card will also be helpful, but I would try and make sure you have Turbo Mode enabled in your bios, since Revit only using one core for most processes, you will get an boost increase in Ghz in the Core i7's...really good technology.

 

I would be interested to see you post back and let us know how it is running, and if you have any comparison benchmarks to go off of from older machines.

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superJMuser


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