Hello all,
My office has turned to me to help spec out updates for the computers in our engineering department. We run Solidworks almost exclusively. Solidworks is generally single threaded, but there are a few aspect of our daily routine that will hit a 2nd core. There is really only 1 engineer that would benefit from the 8 threads an i7 provides and has said he will wait if we don't bump him to an i7.
That being said, 90%+ of Solidworks is single threaded so 1 fast Haswell core is really what I need. Accounting is balking at us requesting an i7-4790k because our normal work only hits the i7 we already use (i7 Q740, 1st gen mobile) 12% in task manager and uses less than 1/2 the ram we have. They say our computers are more than fast enough. The processors in our laptops have a Passmark single thread score of 920, while a new i3-4370 is 2225, i5-4690k is 2254, and an i7-4770 is 2239. In theory, everything we do will be twice as fast on a new computer, right?
Will we really notice much of a difference here between the Haswell processors since nearly everything we do is single threaded? I would jump back to a G3258 and overclock it, but overclocking is not allowed.
My office has turned to me to help spec out updates for the computers in our engineering department. We run Solidworks almost exclusively. Solidworks is generally single threaded, but there are a few aspect of our daily routine that will hit a 2nd core. There is really only 1 engineer that would benefit from the 8 threads an i7 provides and has said he will wait if we don't bump him to an i7.
That being said, 90%+ of Solidworks is single threaded so 1 fast Haswell core is really what I need. Accounting is balking at us requesting an i7-4790k because our normal work only hits the i7 we already use (i7 Q740, 1st gen mobile) 12% in task manager and uses less than 1/2 the ram we have. They say our computers are more than fast enough. The processors in our laptops have a Passmark single thread score of 920, while a new i3-4370 is 2225, i5-4690k is 2254, and an i7-4770 is 2239. In theory, everything we do will be twice as fast on a new computer, right?
Will we really notice much of a difference here between the Haswell processors since nearly everything we do is single threaded? I would jump back to a G3258 and overclock it, but overclocking is not allowed.