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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …operating systems and use fully buffered DIMM modules, enabling a maximum memory bandwidth of 21GBps while using 667MHz modules. Our evaluation unit came with 4GB of RAM, installed using four 1GB memory modules. Alienware MJ-12 8550i At a GlanceAlienwareMiami, FLalienware.com> Price: $8,866 as tested> Size: 7.75 in. 3…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …Quadro FX 5600 is fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications and uses NVIDIA’s unified driver architecture (UDA). Drivers are available for Windows Vista and Window XP (both 32- and 64-bit), Windows 2000 (32-bit only), Linux 32 and 64, and Solaris. The FX 5600 can be purchased…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …Quadro FX 4600 is fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications and uses NVIDIA’s unified driver architecture (UDA). Drivers are available for Windows Vista and Windows XP (both 32- and 64-bit), Windows 2000 (32-bit only), Linux 32 and 64, and Solaris. The latest version of the driver…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …operating systems, and use fully buffered DIMM modules enabling a maximum memory bandwidth of 21GB/s while using 667MHz modules. The downside is that each FB-DIMM module uses 8-10 watts — whereas DDR-2 modules use around 4 watts. Because the new memory modules run hotter than previous DIMMs, the…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …Dell Precision M6300 is fully certified for most CAD and DCC applications. The Dell Precision M6300 mobile workstation is hard to beat. It combines great performance at a great price. It’s definitely on the heavy side, but its performance and battery life, coupled with a great price, make…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …of $1,200) also now fully supports 64-bit Windows XP and Vista. For design professionals who need full DWG native file format compatibility but can live without 3D, advanced customization, or network licensing, AutoCAD LT offers much of what you get in AutoCAD, at a fraction of the cost.…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …available. The system is fully certified for most CAD and DCC applications. With the inclusion of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M graphics controller, this mobile workstation reaches near parity with its desktop brethren. The HP Compaq 8710w clearly earns the workstation imprimatur. The only question you need ask…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …needed to make them fully Microsoft Vista ready. However, only two of the new ATI boards, the FireGL V3600 and V5600, are PCI Express 2.0 compatible. The ultra high-end ATI FireGL V8650, the industry’s first 2GB graphics accelerator, is otherwiseidentical to the V8600. In addition, all of the…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …needed to make them fully Microsoft Vista ready. The Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, and 3700 are all based on a 65-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process whereas the FX 4600 and 5600 are 90nm boards. The 370, 570, 1700, and 3700 also support PCI Express version 2.0, which doubles…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …ATI FirePro boards are fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications and use a unified video driver. Drivers are available for most 32- and 64-bit operating systems, including Vista, XP, and Linux. With these new boards from AMD, ATI is once again competing head-to-head with NVIDIA. And…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …Quadro FX 4800 is fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications and uses NVIDIA’s unified driver architecture (UDA). Drivers are available for Windows Vista and Windows XP (both 32- and 64-bit), Windows 2000 (32-bit only), Linux 32 and 64, Solaris, and FreeBSD x86. While a board like…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …ATI FirePro V8700 is fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications and uses AMD’s unified Catalyst display driver. Drivers are available for Windows Vista and Windows XP (both 32- and 64-bit) as well as Linux 32 and 64. AMD backs this and its other ATI FirePro boards…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …Vista compliant if not fully certified for Windows Vista. Of course, you may need to buy a new version of the software.• Glass gets in the way: Microsoft surely had many reasons to change the appearance of its operating system—unflattering comparisons to the Mac OS come to mind.…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …ATI FirePro boards are fully certified with most CAD sand DCC applications and use the same unified video driver. Drivers are available for most 32- and 64-bit operating systems, including Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Linux. With these new ATI FirePro boards, the competition between AMD and NVIDIA…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …workstations, the M6500 is fully certified for most CAD and DCC applications. Clearly, the M6500 delivers great performance, albeit at a price to match. We’d love it even more if it were a bit lighter and could run longer on battery power, but those are lesser issues when…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …lower latency than the fully buffered memory used in the xw8400. The W5580, the fastest of the new W5500-series CPUs, has a thermal design power value of 130 watts, compared to 150 watts for the X5492 processor in the HP xw8600. Intel has also reinstituted simultaneous multithreading, which…
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DE Editors · December 4, 2001 · …uses a proprietary particle-based, fully Lagrangian approach to handle complex CFD problems. It can simulate the flow of gases and liquids, heat and mass transfer, moving bodies and deformable parts, multiphase physics, acoustics, and fluid structure interaction. XFlow is designed to give you quick feedback on complex flow…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · December 4, 2001 · …and drawbacks of using fully structured and unstructured mesh topologies. The final 20 minutes or so of the webinar are Q&A. Hint: Smart people attended the live broadcast. And none of the webinar is soaked in marketing hype, BTW. It’s a clean script for engineers, I suspect, by…
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David Cohn · December 4, 2001 · …AMD FirePro boards are fully certified with most CAD and DCC applications, and all of the boards in the FirePro line, including earlier ATI-branded boards, use the same unified video driver. Drivers are available for most 32- and 64-bit operating systems, including Windows 7, Vista, XP and Linux.AMD…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · December 4, 2001 · …and Autodesk Simulation is fully interoperable with such Autodesk products as Inventor, Fusion, Vault, and Moldflow.EMA Design Automation’s 45-minute “Using Autodesk Simulation to Enhance Your Workflow” on-demand webinar provides a straightforward and comprehensive overview of Autodesk Simulation 2012. Your presenter is Rajesh Radhakrishnan, an engineer from Autodesk, and…
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