Computer resources

I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only assume that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) that will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to be spent on regular upgrades. -- Michael A. Barlow

Technical justifications are one thing, what about personal ones? Do you enjoy gaming? Do you enjoy spending money on systems. If yes and yes, then you can make almost anything justifiable! ;-) "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IBfu8.24243$[email hidden]... : I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most : resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only assume : that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). : Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is : true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) that : will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to : be spent on regular upgrades. : : -- : Michael A. Barlow : :

Maybe I should have also added, "With the exception of Personal Enjoyment", to that list. I'm after some things that say that I would do better at Racing/Race Driving, if I had the next best video/sound/CPU/ram/ect../ect.. there is on the market. Something that says to my "Boss" that I'm lacking if I don't have X component(s). and on the same note, something that says only people who run X type of software need to spend more money. On the "personal justification" classification, It's easy to justify to your self spending money for maximum enjoyment on something that you're addicted to, or need to be better at. I need to justify it to my "Boss" (not wife, girlfriend, ect..). or even justify it to a friend. -- Michael A. Barlow FILSCA (www.filsca.com) "+G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:4Ffu8.16462$[email hidden]... > Technical justifications are one thing, what about personal ones? > Do you enjoy gaming? Do you enjoy spending money on systems. > > If yes and yes, then you can make almost anything justifiable! ;-) > > "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:IBfu8.24243$[email hidden]... > : I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most > : resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only > assume > : that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). > : Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above > is > : true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) > that > : will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money > to > : be spent on regular upgrades.

Michael Barlow <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IBfu8.24243$[email hidden]...

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> I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most > resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only assume > that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). > Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is > true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) that > will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to > be spent on regular upgrades.

MSC.Nastran! When you've got a job running on two 600+ MHz RISC processors, with a gig of memory allocated *each* and 40+ Gb of scratch space striped across a 4-disk array with its own dedicated SCSI controller, that's starting to be a resource hog... (especially when it still takes several hours to run!) AutoCAD's wussy - it's mostly used for 2D IME, which is nothing ;-) Jonny

"Jonny Hodgson" <[email hidden]> writes: > MSC.Nastran! When you've got a job running on two 600+ MHz RISC > processors, with a gig of memory allocated *each* and 40+ Gb of > scratch space striped across a 4-disk array with its own dedicated > SCSI controller, that's starting to be a resource hog... (especially > when it still takes several hours to run!) memconf: V1.39 30-Mar-2001 http://www.webpak.net/~tschmidt/unix.html hostname: hemmelig banner: 8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500 model: Sun Ultra-Enterprise Solaris 2.6 5/98 s297s_hw3smccServer_09 SPARC, SunOS 5.6 12 UltraSPARC-II cpus, cpu freq: 400MHz, system freq: 100MHz CPU Units: Run Ecache CPU CPU Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask --- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ---- 0 0 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 0 1 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 2 4 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 2 5 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 3 6 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 3 7 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 4 8 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 4 9 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 6 12 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 6 13 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 7 14 0 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 7 15 1 400 8.0 US-II 10.0 Memory Units: Intrlv. Intrlv. Brd Bank MB DIMMs Status Condition Speed Factor With --- ----- ---- ----- ------- ---------- ----- ------- ------- 0 0 2048 8x256 Active OK 60ns 4-way A 2 0 2048 8x256 Active OK 60ns 4-way A 3 0 2048 8x256 Active OK 60ns 4-way A 4 0 2048 8x256 Active OK 60ns 4-way A total memory = 8192MB (8GB) This is just one of the machines in the system. It's running trading software. (It's probably a little bit overkill though.) Still, this is nothing. Try looking at weather forecasts or oil reservoir modeling stuff. -- -asbjxrn

I run a cad program called CadKey on a fresh boot with not too much running in the background I go from 92% system resources to somthing like 15% system resources, no way can I run more than one instance of this program. Very difficult to run other programs such as Excel or Word at the same time as well. I also run Autocad 14 and 2000, 14 I can have 5 or 6 instances open at one time and still multi task all I need to. There are some people in my office who have win2000 and they do not have this problem, but I'm running win 98se, can't wait till the bos gets me a new puter. "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<IBfu8.24243$[email hidden]>...

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> I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most > resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only assume > that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). > Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is > true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) that > will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to > be spent on regular upgrades.

Try running some finite element codes. Depending on the size of the model and the type of analysis (stress, thermal, fluid dynamics, etc) a fast PC can take from hours to several days to come up with the results on a fast system. Video resources aren't that critical, but better cpu, memory, and hard drives sure count. But seeing as the yearly license fees for some of these codes are in the range of five figures $US, spending a little extra on hardware doesn't seem that bad. ;-) Ken Michael Barlow wrote:

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> I was told once that the higher end computer games were among the most > resource hogging things that can be done with a computer. I can only assume > that Autocad being used in the auto industry would be the biggest hogs(?). > Any case, I need a small list of at least three items, weather the above is > true or not, that are resource hogs in a scale of 1-3... Something(s) that > will put racing sims in to perspective and justify large amounts of money to > be spent on regular upgrades. > > -- > Michael A. Barlow