Im a little upset

[twitchee2]

So last night i was working on a project for school in SolidWorks and i dont think ive ever seen my rig so bogged down before. I, needless to say, was a little upset. So now i actually have a good reason to upgrade my for once other then just gaming. So, here my thinking, just upgrade my cpu/ram/mobo and i should be good to go. ill keep everything else.

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0
G.SKILL 2GB

Then either a Q6600 or a E6550

I dont think i need quad at this time. Should i just go for it? any other opinons on this? I know people are going to say get a new graphics but i just got that 7800gtx and i have no need for any more graphics.
Thanks

 

[Doclife]

Could the slow down due to spyware ? Every now and then, I would reinstall the OS fresh when I perceive that my system is slowing down.

 

[twitchee2]

no its clean, i scan everyday and im on top of things. its just a very powerful 3d modeling program. defiantly pushing the limits of the comp.

 

[soccerballtux]

What was it slowing down doing? Did you have a huge model that simply navigating around in and zooming in/out was slowing your comp down? Or are you talking about when you were rendering a video displaying the model from various angles?

Please give more information. Depending on the above; dictates what you need to upgrade, if you indeed need to at all. IE, if it's the CPU rendering once you've already made the model and you're just tired of everything else being slow while it does this, then you could simply lower the process priority of the SolidEdge in Windows and this would speed everything else up for you. If it's while you're activily navigating around the model that your computer is being super slow then you probably want a Quadro or FireGL(/MV?) series graphics card.

 

[twitchee2]

Its cpu. its when im moving it around getting diff angles, zooming in and out, saving, opening the file. just everything. Im running off the raid 0 array.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

reformat FTW. It's amazing what a reformat can do for performance, regardless of the scans and everything else for spyware.

Originally posted by: twitchee2
Its cpu. its when im moving it around getting diff angles, zooming in and out, saving, opening the file. just everything. Im running off the raid 0 array.

If it is anything like 3dsmax, then all of that is video card, not processor. Having a Quadro made all the difference in setting up scenes, and then once rendering started, the processor took over.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
reformat FTW. It's amazing what a reformat can do for performance, regardless of the scans and everything else for spyware.

Originally posted by: twitchee2
Its cpu. its when im moving it around getting diff angles, zooming in and out, saving, opening the file. just everything. Im running off the raid 0 array.

If it is anything like 3dsmax, then all of that is video card, not processor. Having a Quadro made all the difference in setting up scenes, and then once rendering started, the processor took over.

Yes you would get a much bigger performance increase from a Quadro.