Hardware requirements for Pro E

[pribusin]

We are planning to purchase a PC to run Pro E this year. None of our very old PCs have been able to handle it in the past. Is there a hardware requirement list somewhere that we can use as a guide? I've tried navigating the Pro E website but have not found what I'm looking for.

Any suggestions or own experiences are welcome.

Thanks.

[tim-tim]

What version of Pro/Engineer or Creo are you running?
Some system requirements for:
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3 (www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/71138/en/proewf3.pdf‎)
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4 (www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/52592/en/proewf4.pdf‎)
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5 (www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/77552/en/proewf5.pdf‎)
Creo 1.0 (www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/127428/en/creo1_hw_notes.pdf‎)
Creo 2.0 (www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/135225/en/creo2_hw_notes.pdf‎)

Hope this helps.

[pribusin]

tim-tim. That's awesome :) !

I think we're planning on running Creo 2.0.

[tim-tim]

I can talk to my IT folks tomorrow. We run Creo 2.0 at work and have a decent setup. If I could give one piece of advice - spend money on a video/graphics card. You won't see much of a difference until you start to work on a large assembly (could be anything from a drivetrain to the entire robot - depends on your approach). Other than that, I think any i5 and up processor will work. I would get at least 8GB of RAM.

Honestly, the biggest difference you will see is in a video/graphics card. As a side note, a solid state hard drive is a nice upgrade, but not required by any means.