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by phealy_lssi
Tue May 18, 2021 4:58 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: The age old question SW processor and video card
Replies: 8
Views: 2799

Re: The age old question SW processor and video card

My questions are: a) what is the difference between standard and turbo frequency? Do I have to do something special to get it running at 4.7? b) knowing fewer cores / higher frequency is important, is there an I7 with a higher frequency that would be faster and cheaper? c) what about AMD processors...
by phealy_lssi
Tue May 18, 2021 4:35 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Solidworks Memory Usage
Replies: 31
Views: 12399

Re: Solidworks Memory Usage

User today clocked a high score of 11.7GB memory used for SW2021, with another 3GB going to Explorer/Solidworks PDM. Just had two SLDDRWs open. Time to go memory leak hunting.
by phealy_lssi
Fri May 14, 2021 9:59 am
Forum: Kitty Dump
Topic: Watercooler Talk
Replies: 1478
Views: 264297

Re: Watercooler Talk

Frederick_Law wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 9:57 am Put 70% alcohol on everything you eat.
We could always just skip the eating part and drink the alcohol.
by phealy_lssi
Thu May 13, 2021 10:30 am
Forum: CAD Agnostic
Topic: Free (as in beer) DWG Viewers
Replies: 2
Views: 1010

Free (as in beer) DWG Viewers

Happy Thursday. My IT team is trying to evaluate DWG viewers to free up some licenses of AutoCAD for only those who need the editor capabilities. We're having some issues with Autodesk's offering in DWG TrueView, mainly that it seems to be held together with duct tape and wishes, and it doesn't play...
by phealy_lssi
Wed May 12, 2021 5:36 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Who is using SW 2021?
Replies: 62
Views: 10879

Re: Who is using SW 2021?

We currently have SW2021 SP02 deployed on 64 machines. I'm just IT so I couldn't tell you specifics, but a lot of our engineers are on Dell Precision 5520 laptops, upgraded to 32GB RAM. They're not brand new machines by any stretch of the word, but they're holding on pretty damn well all things cons...
by phealy_lssi
Wed May 12, 2021 5:23 pm
Forum: For Sale and Want To Buy
Topic: FS: Keychron K4 Mechanical Keyboard
Replies: 11
Views: 5966

Re: FS: Keychron K4 Mechanical Keyboard

What color switch did you get? You mentioned it being loud, so probably not Red.

If it's Blue I might be interested.