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theflanker

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Hi, I am a revit architecture user, and i seem to spend alot of time waiting for revit to do things. i regulaily work with large models, but i wondered if my computer specs are partly to blame.  my IT manager keeps telling me that my machine is the latest and greatest, but i wonder if it really is.

My specs are:

Dell Precision T5500

Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.4GHz (4x according to my device manager)

12GB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 Graphics card

Windows 7 Pro 64bit

(My windows experience rating is only 5.9)

Could my system performance be imroved by hardware upgrades?

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coreed

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I consider 12GB of RAM a bare minimum now.

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ASimpson1985

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I have a question along the same lines.

I'm looking for advice on a Revit workstation for a rather large Revit file I'm currently working with. The building has been modeled architecturally in Revit and we're about to add the M, E, P, and FP systems into the model in RevitMEP for an owners FM needs. The complete architectural model is approximately 1.3 GB currently. I'm running the architectural model on my current laptop (specs below) inRevit 2013 and due to the size it can be rather sluggish. My concerns are that once the mechanical systems are added in the file is going to become unusable with my current hardware. The building is a university research facility with rather involved systems. I'm looking for suggestions, given the size of the file, what type of minimum hardware/specs I need to be looking at to make this model functional for myself and eventually the owner on the FM side of things. Any help is appreciated.Processor: i7-3820QMRAM: 16GBVideo card: GEForce GT 650MWindows 7

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WWHub

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First - DON'T WORK IN THE ARCHITECTURAL MODEL!

Start your own MEP model using your template.  Then enable worksharing and create your central and local files.  Now create a workset for the architectural model and link the architectural model in and within the workset you just created.  Now copy/monitor the architects level and grids - then any other items you need to use.  << NOT Everything

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coreed

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I aggree with WWHub,

Procees will proably be better in this case than hardware. But if you want hadrware, it can provide some performance

gain in some cases, depending....

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coreed,aia

bmpArchitects,Inc.

"Revit has to be implemented, Not installed." 

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