Computer Upgrading for Circuit Simulation or PCB CAD

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- D from BC
  
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14 years ago

Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:29 PM

AFter holding off and holding offf for years, I'm finally upgrading :) 'Must hold off..Technology still changing.. Must holddddd offff!'

Bye bye 2 Western Digital 10 000 rpm Rapture disks in raid 0.. Hello Solid State Drive..OCZ 60G 230MB/s max read $250.00CAn

Bye bye ..old Pentium 4 Gigabyte mobo Hello, AM3 Gigabyte mobo supporting 16GB DDR3 (14GB for ram drive. 2G for OS)

and so on ...on...and on..

Anyone else upgraded for pcb design or circuit simulation.. And what was done?

D from BC Amateur smps designer. British Columbia, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

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14 years ago

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 10:49 AM

The split should be more like 4 GB and 12 GB, today's apps run in OS space and are really resource hogs. Other than that system should be pretty snappy. Disable swap if you can, if you have 4GB or more it usually slows down the system.

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