Question:
AutoCad Programs on these Laptop specs.
I just purchased a new Compaq yesterday and it will be here in about 2 weeks im just wondering if anyone out there knows if it will be able to handle the new Autocad programs like Inventor. Heres the specs on my comp.
- Compaq Presario V5000Z CTO NB
- Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition with SP2
- AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-32 (1.8GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
- 15.4" WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280x800)
- 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)
- 512MB DDR2 SDRAM (2x256MB)
- 80 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
- LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
- 54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
- 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
I plan on upgrading the Ram to 1 gig. But im not sure if this video card is good enough to handle Inventor. Here is what Autocads site says about the requirements.
Part and assembly design (less than 1,000 parts)
Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Xeon™, or AMD Athlon™ processor, 2 GHz or higher
1 GB or more RAM
3.5 GB free disk space
128 MB OpenGL-capable graphics card
Answer:
Re: AutoCad Programs on these Laptop specs.
I haven't worked with AutoCad but it sounds like CPU,GPU and HDD intensive.
For the CPU, I would take a Turion with 1mb l2 cache but probably ML-32 would be OK as well.
As for the GPU, X200 is a low-end dedicated memory video card. It is cable of OpenGL but I'm not sure of the performance you will get. As far as I know, AutoCad is very demanding so I would not expect miracles from x200.
I'm more worried about the hard drive, however; the HDD is only 4200rpm. I have 5400rpm HDD without working on AutoCad and still I think of getting a 7200rpm disk...4200rpm is very slow. I think 5400 is a must for you (if not even 7200)