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Re: computer shopping

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Originally Posted by Daniel Morse
I will speak only to the video card. The CAD lab at our high school runs ATI FireGl v3100 (I think 3100 is right, I am going from memory here, but I know it's FireGl), but anyway, the FireGl's seemed to be able to handle the processing on Inventor and 3Ds. At first the computers were slow, but I investigated and discovered that the computers were running at 256 MB standard ram, so I deduced that it was probably not the video cards causing the slowdown. Plus, I know that the FireGl's are supported by Autodesk Inventor. Anybody else who has had experience with ATI FireGl's, please contribute your opinion on them.
Well, it's most likely the kind of chip that's in your system. I'm not sure what kind you need but if you have a gaming chip, it won't be able to run the program likes its supposed to be runned. I'm not too knowledgable on computers specifics, this was just what another autodeskl profesional told me. When ever you open huge assemblies things may disappear as you rotate them.
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