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Pdoak

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Hi, I'm new to this forum and will soon be a new user to Revit - I'm very excited! I am the designer for a construction company full time and run my own design company on the side (Doak Design). My full time job, where I'm the only designer/draftsman, will be purchasing Revit 2011 along with a new computer system, and I want to make sure I get something that will work! Right now the planned purchase is:

Dell Precision T1500i7 860, 2.8ghz8 gb ddr3, 1333mhzNvidia quadro FX580, 512mbdual 22" lcd monitorsraid 320gb hard drives (two, running each as a back-up I think)

Does anyone currently run Revit 2011, or AutoCAD Architecture 2011 on a system close to this where you could give me some feedback as to its performance?

I would greatly appriciate it as we will be making the purchase before the end of the year.

Thank you!

-Phil-

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Typhoon

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I have an Intel core i7 930 2.80GHz with 12GB of Ram DDR3 and an ATI Radeon HD 5850 in Windows 7 64bits and works like a charm...

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Bimman

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We run the fx570 video card. but had a prob with crashing all the time.  the problem was the driver was not supported.  We had to roll our driver back to a supported version and all is great at this point. I know the fx580 is a compatible card but not with there new drivers. you can look on revits site and find the compatible driver and make sure you have it.  funny how a driver can mess up everything and cause crashes like crazy. i mean like every 20 min. also may want to set your 3 gig switch, that helps a bunch also. 

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Pdoak

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What is the 3 gig switch? Can you explain what that does, how it works, and why to do it? I could probably search for it on google too if you know of a good link that would be helpful.

Thanks!

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Bimman

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it basicly lets revit use more of your supplied ram. with larger projects revit may not have the ability to access enough ram to make its calculations. if this happens then it will crash.  he is the link from autodesk you can read it and follow the instruvtions for the page filing also. i had a terrible prob with crashing until i figured all this out.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=8018966&linkID=9243099

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Pdoak

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Awesome, thank you! I'll def. check that out! I will typically only work with custom residential so I doubt I should have any problems, but I would like to get into some new commercial projects under my personal business if I can find an architect willing to hire out some contract work. But thanks to Typhoon for input as well; I should be getting the new computer this week, I recieved the Revit Architecture Legacy Suite a couple days ago, so I'm excited to get it loaded on!!!

Thanks again!!!

-Phil-

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HELP PLEASE!!!!!! i7 860 vs i5 2400

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