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Re: best cpu

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Originally Posted by Nuson
As an Inventor user, I would caution against getting an ATI card. ATI has a reputation for not being friendly with Inventor -- within Inventor circles, they've come to be known as "Always Trash Inventor". I really have no idea as to why ATI cards have a tendancy to behave this way, but from my own experience using a radeon 8500, I did have problems running Inventor correctly, which forced me to change my Inventor hardware settings to conservative (yuck ) to get things to work correctly.
I have a Radeon 8500 and Inventor runs great for me. It could be the processor though, Athlon xp 2600+
This summer windows 64-bit is comming out so an Opteron for a workstation or an Athlon64 might be a good choice for your CAD needs.
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