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Need to run ProE on lappy...

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sputkin

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For an intership this summer I'm going to need to run ProE on my laptop. I've got a stock Emachines M6810, have not upgraded or overclocked anything (specs below). I shouldn't be working with any parts or assemblies that are too big (I'm thinking at most 20 or 30 parts in any one assembly).

So... will I need to beef up my lappy to it run (at least somewhat) smoothly? (ProE Wildfire 2.0 student). What would my most economical upgrade be?? I'm definitely guessing RAM. The specs say it can handle up to 1.2 GB. Oh, and since it came with with 2x 256 modules, would it be bad performancewise to leave one of the 256 in there and add a 1gig or should it be 1gig only or 2x512 or something like that? Thanks for any suggestions!


Emachines m6810

2.00 GHz Athlon 64 3200+ Mobile
512 MB RAM (2x 256) PC2700 DDR
60 GB Hard Drive
15.4" WXGA (1280x800)
DVD/CD-RW Drive
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics with 64MB of DDR video memory
512KB L2 Cache
1600MHz FSB (Frontside Bus)
RAM is expandable to 1.2GB
 
Im not quite sure what your talking about, but if whatever your doing is applications then the ram would be the best upgrade, Just make sure your not mixing different sticks. Oh yeah and it wouldnt be bad performance wise to have a gig and a 256 stick.
 
Thanks speed, anyone else have a bit more exprience with how much it would affect ProE if I upgrade my RAM? Is it worth it?

Oh, and ProE is a 3D modeling design program (ala Autocad, Inventor, Solidworks, etc).
 
I have experience with ProE. I have run it on my laptop, P3 1 Ghz, 256 Mb RAM, old Radeon Mobility. It does run, but slowly.

You should be able to run it quite well on your laptop, but a RAM upgrade would not hurt.
 
Shut down ALL unused applications when you run ProE. Launch TaskManager and let it run in the background. At the end of the ProE session, check the Peak Commit Charge in TaskManager. If it is less than 512MB, then you probably don't need to add more RAM.

That said, 512 should be adequate for ProE.
 
I've run CATIA V5 on a laptop. It ran fine, but had 1.5GB of RAM. I think that with CAD software RAM trumps CPU. So get more memory...
 
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