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madhanrajbarch

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 which is goor for revit alien or hp?. or tell me a good configuration for revit my budget is 4000$.

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mbsteve

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This is a copy of my performance page, you can see the Computer Manufacturer, I have a 32" Vizio Screen, and this runs Revti 2012 very satisfactory.

I would avoid the Raid combo which is what I had to begin with. It eventually got out of sync and what a mess that was. Now I just use Sync Toy and copy my working files from my main drive to my backup drive, it just takes a few minutes to update. This has been working great.

This machine is getting old, I'm sure, but it still works fine for me, I don't do alot of rendering. Maybe someone will post a better system. You should be able to do very well with your alloted budget.

Good luck

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itsmyalterego

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I would always avoid getting the "best" system, because they're exponentially more expensive than a "good" system.  And they'll no longer be the best within a couple months--they become average-- and like any other good box can then stay competitive for a couple years.    Not worth $2000 in my opinion.  I'd get a $2000 laptop, and another $2000 laptop in two years, and that'll buy you 4 years of relevance, wheras the alienware would probably be obsolete within 3. 

Even the best machines still can't make revit run like silk, sadly.  It has always been a moving target.

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i agree with itsmyalterego. i would drop down a level and increase the ram. 24GB if the system will support it.

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EBDbren

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I realise I will be way too late, but $4000 is a huge budget. Surely you could get both of those computers for $4k? The z600's ram of 6gig is pretty light though.

I have an i7 2600k, gtx580 and revit runs as smooth as silk.

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Pableaux

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I bought my 6-core i7 990x from Dell for $2200

including;

12GB Ram

decent graphic cad

23" monitor

... This machine runs soooo smooth in Revit 2012... Its really a dream come true.

I have pondered overclocking it? Just for the boost of it!

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bimWORKS

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From my personal experience on hardware I would steer away from Alienware as a workstation. They are more geared towards gaming. I recommened looking at Dell's Precision workstations.

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Jamie351

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would you guys buy from a local pc store like these...

http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/artisanv3-intel-core-2700k-6870-120gb-p-55706.html?sort=2a

http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/free-shipping-avalanche-intel-core-2600k-radeon-6970-120gb-p-55532.html?sort=2a

or would you stay with the big brands for piece of mind I guess

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