[Maurice]

[johncassel]

After all of your help and input as well as some deliberation in the office we wound up buying a Dell Precision 690 Mini-Tower with two 5150 Dual Core Xeon Processors running at with 2.66GHz, 4MB L2 Cache 1333MHz and 4GB DDR2 ECC SDRAM Memory running at 667MHz.

We keep all of our data files on a networked harddrive so the only thing running on the system's hard drive are programs and the operating system which is WINDOWS XP PRO x64.

We are going to run three 22" LCD monitors so we had Dell install a nVidia Quadro FX3450 2X 256MB PCIe graphics card that can handle up to four monitors at once.

The deed is done, the system is ordered and we are looking forward to our new computer. If we experience anything unusual we will post the results here on the forum.

Thanks for your help.

Aloha,
John

[KeesW]

Maurice

Not much difference, according to Adam Pressley at ap@aaarchitect.com who has tested Archicad performance on several dozen computers. The big benefit is being able to use more RAM and this should pay dividents - if not now, probably in the future during the term of my lease. My computer was 50% faster than the latest, dual Xenon Mac but I don't know what components are responsible. It is usually a combination of bits.

I use CutePDF writer and this works fine with ArchiCad. I am having some minor problems with Quickbooks Premier, my accounting system, but I don't know if that is due to XP 64 or a conflict between that and Archicad 10.

[Maurice]