New Hardware Setup

[Alistair Smitheman]

Hi,

I am trying to find a new notebook for running Flexsim on, however it has to be a Lenovo (company policy).

I have been looking through the versions and those that have Nvidia graphics cards (Quadro FX 2700/512MB or 3700/1GB) also have 4GB RAM and the following processors:
Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 (3.06GHz 1GHz)
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Extreme QX9300 (2.53GHz 1GHz)
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9100 (2.26GHz 1GHz)

These do seem a bit like overkill but with some of the models I have been and will be creating having over 80 processors/reserviors/etc and up to 80,000 items in them, the bigger the better right?

Any help with this would be much appreciated, thanks.

Alistair

[Carsten Seehafer]

Flexsim uses at the moment only 1 processor so a quad core hasn't pros with Flexsim. I would choose the first processor.

At work we use gaming graphics cards like Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT and normal Intel Core 2 Duo and we haven't ever any speed problems. It's more important to have a good design of your simulation especially with very big models.

If you can choose your operating system I would prefer windows xp. It's faster :rolleyes:

[Brandon Peterson]

Alistair,

Before you sign up for any particular laptop you will want to find out what video cards they have and then go to the following post: http://www.flexsim.com/community/forum/showthread.php?t=272&highlight=video+card to determine what lap tops have video cards that will work well with Flexsim.

[Alistair Smitheman]

Alistair,

Before you sign up for any particular laptop you will want to find out what video cards they have and then go to the following post: http://www.flexsim.com/community/forum/showthread.php?t=272&highlight=video+card to determine what lap tops have video cards that will work well with Flexsim.

Cheers Brandon,

The various computers I have used so far with Flexsim have had a variety of Nvidia cards with little difference to me of which ones best so I just always try and stick with those.