Steve,
While I don't have any experience with JewelCAD, I can relate what we
learned spec'ing workstations for Pro/E and ANSYS work. Users of Pro are
probably familiar with the clock and the stopsign. The clock comes up when
the processor is bogged down in calculations, the stopsign comes up as the
machine is trying to render the view to the screen. You can have the
fastest processor in the world, but if you've got a crummy video card
you'll be watching that stopsign for minutes at a time.
We ended up with dual processor PII 450's with 768meg of RAM and a 32meg
OpenGL graphics card with the 3DLabs GMX2000 chip. What we paid is pretty
much immaterial as it was more than 6 months ago when we bought it, but it
was more than $10k. The dual processors make little difference in normal
use as it is only when an FEA solution is running in the background that
the power of the second chip is tapped. The same thing goes for the RAM,
anything more than 256meg is rarely used. The video card, however, pays
for itself every day.
-Brian
*** Brian VanHiel - Mech. Eng. - Nordson Corp - bvanhiel@nordson.com ***
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