calling all engineers in college

[Fenixgoon]

would it be worth upgrading my computer entering college?

my major will be materials engineering. i know i'll need matlab (any other software besides that?)

current (important)system specs:

AMD sempron 2100+ @ 1.26ghz
80gig 7200rpm hdd
512mb crucial pc2100 ram
ATI radeon 9800 NP
dvd+-rw

 

[Baked]

To play games at faster frame rate?

 

[mitaiwan82]

wait till you actually get the software and try it out with your current rig...if it's not cutting it, then upgrade. Otherwise, save your money for :beer:

 

[mchammer187]

for EE you definitely won't NEED anything more powerful

 

[SaturnX]

LOL, you really don't need to upgrade your PC... I've managed so far with a AthlonXP 1600, it's not like going into Engineering requires some incredibly powerful PC.. you'll spend most of your time with pencil and paper.

--Mark

 

[Vette73]

Oh dear lord YES!!!


You need at least a Athlon64 3800+ or maybe a FX55
That with 4gig of ram, 2 Raptor hard drives in raid, etc...

NOW MAN!!!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Oh dear lord YES!!!


You need at least a Athlon64 3800+ or maybe a FX55
That with 4gig of ram, 2 Raptor hard drives in raid, etc...

NOW MAN!!!

i like it

in all seriousness though.. my computer does feel a bit sluggish at times.

 

[J0hnny]

I used an Intel 800 Mhz for the last 4 years!

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
would it be worth upgrading my computer entering college?

my major will be materials engineering. i know i'll need matlab (any other software besides that?)

current (important)system specs:

AMD sempron 2100+ @ 1.26ghz
80gig 7200rpm hdd
512mb crucial pc2100 ram
ATI radeon 9800 NP
dvd+-rw

Maybe more RAM.

Everything else is fine.

Programs you'll be running will be Matlab, Mathmatica, and the like. If you're lucky you might have Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks on it, again, you need more RAM but everything else is fine.

 

[Fenixgoon]

alright.. looks like ram it is

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
would it be worth upgrading my computer entering college?

my major will be materials engineering. i know i'll need matlab (any other software besides that?)

current (important)system specs:

AMD sempron 2100+ @ 1.26ghz
80gig 7200rpm hdd
512mb crucial pc2100 ram
ATI radeon 9800 NP
dvd+-rw

You will be perfectly fine. You know, people were running Matlab 10 years ago on much slower machines.

 

[Triumph]

no you don't need a new computer to run matlab. you can run matlab just fine on a P2 128 mb machine. nothing i did on matlab ever felt slow. you just won't be solving the kinds of equations that would actually slow it down. i used it mostly for diffeq.