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I have 5 monitors at home but really only use 3 or 4. I really been thinking jumping to curved 4k monitor such as this one
What I have found
23 inch 1080p IPS
27 inch 1440p IPS
30 inch+ 4k (3440 x 1440 Pixels)
I have maxed out 32gb of ram but only with Solidworks and mastercam bunch of other program running at home. My current workstation at work only has 16gb of ram. I have never felt limited. The only thing I wish we had is 10gb ethernet ran everywhere and Raid 0 SSD or Pci Express SSD.
I always love more ram but in his use it will be better off with an SSD and 16gb of ram unless he runs multiple CAD/CAM programs and 100 tabs of chrome, outlook, virtual machines and about everything elsE I was trying to max out the ram testing to figure where a good cut off is for price and performance. Hell, I could use close to 5gb in just chrome.
If really wanted to get fancy which I have before is run mastercam off a ram disk have.
Jparis you only used 93% of ram. I'm talking 100% load on the cpu and 100% ram.
Now on NX I could easily peg 32gb of ram using machine simulation for our mazak integrex where I worked before.
What's your reason that he will max out 32gb of ram?
I have similar work flow and I don't use anywhere 32gb of unless im using solidworks (large assemblies 200+ parts) and mastercam at the same, plus chrome, email, plus are erp software
edit- only 8gb you should go 16gb
I helped him with that build. I suggested windows backup and he is uses dropbox.
I use raid 0, I don't backup jack nothing with OS and programs just all my settings, files, documents, toolbars, templates etc.
You're bottleneck is that slow hard drive and slow 2ghz xeon. More cores don't=better
this computer would faster then you currently have:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops/erazer/x-series/x510/#tab-customize
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