SW2020 Workstation Configuration

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Hello everyone. 

I'm looking for a little advice on buying  a  workstation.

Mine ( home made ) having given up the ghost last week (Xenon E5-1650 V3 (6x 3.5ghz, Quadro P2000 , 8x 8GB )

Dell Precision 3630 Tower is really cheap   (Xeon E-2274G (4x4ghz , quadro p2200 , 2x8GB) 1500€ (light ram I think)

Lenovo Thinkstation P520C:

-Version 1: intel Xeon W-2225 (4x4.1ghz) 2x8go quadro P2200  (2300€)

-Version 2: Intel Xeon W-2223 (4x3.6ghz) 2x16go quadro P4000 (3100€)

I occasionally assemble 900 pieces. My hs config was sometimes very very limited.

Can you guide me? Draw you with what machine?

Sincerely.

Florent.

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Hello Florent,

We use a dell 7820 tower configuration  , assembly of 500 to 800 parts 

Intel Xeon Silver 4210R processor, 2.4 GHz, 3.2 GHz Turbo, 10C, 2 x 9.6 GT/s UPI links, 13.75 MB cache, HT (100 W), 2,400 MHz DDR4 memory

Memory Stick 32GB 4x8GB DDR4 2933MHz RDIMM ECC Memory

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Graphics  Card
8 GB GDDR5 RAM

512 GB SSD

Cdlt

 

Julia 

 

 

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Hello

Note that for the modeling part you need the highest possible processor frequency, so the Xeon W-2225 at 4.1Ghz seems the best option, but on the V2 with these 32 of RAM, if your graphics card still works re-use there, it will save a bit if you can choose a tower without a graphics card (which is not uncommon on workstations)

Also see for SW2020 the minis that are recommended. (having stayed for the moment in SW2019 with a second-hand Xeon E5-1620 3.6Ghz - 32GB Ram Quadro K2000 station (400€ for information), I prefer not to go under 2020 which should be more greedy)

I work on small assemblies - 200 unique pieces.

Kind regards

Laurent

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Hello Laurent .and yannick

Thank you for your feedback.

I will probably collicitate our   sociter IT partner to assemble a  configue, following your recommendation.

I'll post it to you as soon as possible to see if there are any inconsistencies.

Sincerely.

Florent

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Hello community.

Machine Order:

Xenon 2225 (4.1GHz)

Ram 2x16go ECC  PC2933 (6 slots left free)

Quadro P4000

2x 960Gb sata 3 Enterprise SSD

W10 Pro 64 Works Station 

I think it should be enough.

A+

Florent.

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Hello @ Florent k

it doesn't seem bad at all 

To be seen in use 

maybe add 2 memory sticks

to optimize the cores 

even if it's  useless for the design on SW 

but all the other programs working in multi cores will be optimized

I'm waiting for your tests

@+ ;-)

 

 

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Hello @ Florent k ,

nice config.

Yannick

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Good evening everyone,

Where I work we have HP Z4 or Z440 stations with different processors and different RAM configurations (32, 40 or 64 GB) in DDR3 or DDR4.

For my part, I have a Z4 with Xeon W-2135 3.7 GHz processor and I think I should have taken a 4.1GHz but it will be for next time or for a colleague.

As far as RAM is concerned, I'm at 64 GB in HP 2666 MHz (3 x 16 GB + 2 x 8 GB)

The graphics card is an NVIDIA Quadro P4000 8 GB dedicated and 32 GB shared

500 GB SSD + 1 TB drive

Despite all this, it still lags. We are working on sorting plant layouts that can range from 100 pieces to more than 3000 without any problem and we are still on SW2019.

And today we looked with our IT service provider to upgrade in the coming weeks a station to 128 GB of RAM with 2 64 GB Kingston sticks.

I wanted to know if any of you had already done it or heard of it and therefore have his feedback, THANK YOU in advance

 

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For our part:

Precision Tower 5810

Intel Xeon CPU E5-1650 v4 3.6GHz

32GB RAM

Assembly with several thousand components and works on the network without PDM (Sw2020 SP5)

So yes it lags but you shouldn't be surprised after a certain number of parts no matter the configuration, it doesn't change much in my opinion, there are still the limitations of the software.

 

But despite everything, the assemblies come out, you just have to be patient on these big assemblies.

For our part, we have a free station that we use to make large implementations (MEP or assembly) and this station allows us to free up ours where we work on sub-assemblies

 

To date, the largest assembly 180,000 components, including some rather large and very heavy step parts.

Most often 20-30,000 components on the overall plan.

 

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