Autocad_2004 on SEMPRON or CELERON processor

[Andrea Severini]

Hi,
I have to buy a new computer where I have to use Autocad2004.
I can't spend many moneys so I think to buy a PC with SEMPRON or CELERON
processor with 1 GB of RAM.

Will I have any problem to work?

Thanks in advance
Andrea

If you are an experienced user of AutoCAD you do not want either of
these chips. You will experience very poor performance. If you are a
beginner you may not notice for a while.

[Andrea Severini]

Thanks a lot for you respons, I suppose it.
Bye
Andrea
<maxgeo71@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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If you are an experienced user of AutoCAD you do not want either of
these chips. You will experience very poor performance. If you are a
beginner you may not notice for a while.

[el Diablo]

"Andrea Severini" <andrea.severini@ericsson.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have to buy a new computer where I have to use Autocad2004.
I can't spend many moneys so I think to buy a PC with SEMPRON or CELERON
processor with 1 GB of RAM.

Will I have any problem to work?

Thanks in advance
Andrea

For almost all 2D drawing a Celeron will work fine. 1Gb of RAM will be more
than adequate.

Here are the minimum hardware specs. from their wed site:
==============================================
Intel® Pentium® III processor or later, 800 MHz
256 MB RAM
300 MB free disk space for installation
1024x768 VGA with true color
Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device
CD-ROM drive
==============================================

A Celeron processor has much more processing ability than a Pentium III
does. And the newer Celeron processors have a much higher clock speed than
the PIII does.

Brian

[JP]

For almost all 2D drawing a Celeron will work fine. 1Gb of RAM will be
more
than adequate.

Celeron processors have less Cache memory.
No matter how fast it is, as soon as calculations are needed the cache comes
in.
Not enough cache means switching to the very slow main memory, thus
resulting in poor performance.
Don't do it.
If you can't afford the money now, save for another year, than buy a new
proper system, it's worth it.

Here are the minimum hardware specs. from their wed site:
==============================================
Intel® Pentium® III processor or later, 800 MHz
256 MB RAM
300 MB free disk space for installation
1024x768 VGA with true color
Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device
CD-ROM drive
==============================================

The system specs are always very optimistic, don't beleive them.
It would be a better idea to have the developers build the new autocad
version on these old wrecks.
That would speed up the software.

Regards,
Jan

[el Diablo]

"JP" <ergens@nergens.nl> wrote in message
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For almost all 2D drawing a Celeron will work fine. 1Gb of RAM will be
more
than adequate.

Celeron processors have less Cache memory.
No matter how fast it is, as soon as calculations are needed the cache
comes
in.
Not enough cache means switching to the very slow main memory, thus
resulting in poor performance.
Don't do it.
If you can't afford the money now, save for another year, than buy a new
proper system, it's worth it.

Here are the minimum hardware specs. from their wed site:
==============================================
Intel® Pentium® III processor or later, 800 MHz
256 MB RAM
300 MB free disk space for installation
1024x768 VGA with true color
Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device
CD-ROM drive
==============================================

The system specs are always very optimistic, don't beleive them.
It would be a better idea to have the developers build the new autocad
version on these old wrecks.
That would speed up the software.

Regards,
Jan

I run ACAD 2004 on two computers, an 800Mhz PIII with 768Mb RAM and a Laptop
with PIII 1Ghz CPU and 513Mb RAM. They run just fine for 2D and light 3D
work. The largest drawing that I have is of our facility and it's drawn to
scale and the plant is over 700,000 square feet. Plus there are two smaller
buildings on the premises that are in the drawing. Once the drawing is open
it responds just fine.
I also run Pro Engineer 2001 on the Laptop with no problems, as it has a
nice nVidea graphics card. Of course a new P4 chip will be faster, but one
doesn't always need the fastest depending on their work requirements.

Brian

[G Farris]

In article <1102691542.485366.191540@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
maxgeo71@yahoo.com says...

If you are an experienced user of AutoCAD you do not want either of
these chips. You will experience very poor performance. If you are a
beginner you may not notice for a while.

When I was learning AutoCad, I ran into huge resource problems, because I was
making it do stupid, unnecessary things. As I gained experience, my resource
management became more rational. I would posit almost the opposite of what is
posted above.

G Faris