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Running Inventor on an eMachines Celeron with integrated graphics

Does anyone do this (or something similar) with any success? Am I going to hate myself if I try it? We need more computers, and if we can get by with something cheap that would be good. Thanks.
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Re: Running Inventor on an eMachines Celeron with integrated graphics

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Does anyone do this (or something similar) with any success? Am I going to hate myself if I try it? We need more computers, and if we can get by with something cheap that would be good. Thanks.
ive been using my emachines laptop with inventor 9 with success. NO problems at all. im not a computer freak so i dont know much and havent done anything except upgrade the memory. it has a stick on it that says "intel inside Celeron"
it may not be the fastest but for a laptop id assume its fast enough with inventor. now all i gotta do is find inventor 10 from somewhere...
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Re: Running Inventor on an eMachines Celeron with integrated graphics

Which graphics chipset? An Intel 845, 865, 915 or 945 with integrated graphics should support decent-enough 3-D and shading. A Via (with integrated S3 graphics) or SIS should work, but they're not very powerful, compared to just about everything else. If you've got an ATI Radeon IGP, you'll be fine, and even an off-board integrated Rage XL will run it in 3-D (slowly!!!). If you've got an nVidia nForce (Intel edition), you'll also be fine, but why you'd find one of those on an eMachines computer escapes me—actually, I'm not sure if the integrated graphics are available on the Intel models. Realistically, though, I'm 85% sure that you'll be fine.

If you haven't bought it yet, look for deals on something with an AMD Sempron, and a cheap GeForce. They're the best value right now. (Or, second-hand P4 Northwoods, like a 2.4C, on an 865G chipset.)

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Re: Running Inventor on an eMachines Celeron with integrated graphics

As with any Autodesk product, a good graphics video card with onboard memory will make the app really powerful. If your onboard can share RAM then try to give it as much as you can.
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Re: Running Inventor on an eMachines Celeron with integrated graphics

Beware of eMachines, though. They use cheep componates that could mess up the whole computer.

Case in point: This guy I know had an eMachines (this was a 3 year old computer, but this occured about a week or so ago), that for some reason wouldn't start. He took it to Geek Squad (at Best Buy) and they said that the power supply, motherboard, ram, the disk drives, the hard drive, and the processor were all fried, probably becuase of a power surge. He gave the computer to me and I found that only the power supply and parts of the motherboard were fired. After doing some research, I figured out that it was proabably a brownout, where the voltage dropped and the current went up. A good power supply would cut off, but a bad one, like this, would let some of the current through to the motherboard, only partially frying it.

But this wasn't his first eMachines that broke. So, therefore I say "do not be tempted by the price of an eMachine." You get what you pay for and you will end up paying more for it.

More on the topic of Inventor, it will probably work, like the other people said, but, keep in mind, eMachines are ment to be light load computers. Internet, email, Solitare. Not 3D parametric Modeling.
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