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Unread 22-11-2004, 00:33
sanddrag sanddrag is offline
On to my 16th year in FRC
FRC #0696 (Circuit Breakers)
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Re: A good, CHEAP PC for Autocad

I was also looking around for a computer for my team. Dell has a lot of fairly nice computers available for fairly good prices, new, on their refurb outlet, and on eBay. The biggest problem is that most of them have integrated graphics and no AGP slot. Bummer.

My PC has an Abit IS7 motherboard with a P4 2.4GHz runing XP Pro. I have 512mb of RAM and a 10,000 rpm SATA HD. I have a Geforce FX5200 for graphics. It runs Inventor (version 5 ) really nice and SolidWorks 2004 () really nice too.

At Cal Poly Pomona, they run SolidWorks 2003 on P3 933s with 256mb of RAM and XP Pro. I'm not sure what the graphics is. It runs alright but I haven't made any large assemblies or anything on it.
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