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Subject: Re: [gislist] Workstation Recommendations
Date:  01/24/2007 09:05:00 AM
From:  Tripp Corbin



As with most things it depends on the type of work you are doing. There
are something's that you do need to consider though regardless. First is
you need a good graphics card. GIS is very graphic intensive. A cheap
video card can really slow things down. I have heard good things about
the Quadro FX 4400. More RAM is always better. I currently run at least
2 GB of ram in all our main production machines. Putting your swap file
on a fast hard drive also helps. As to processors, it have been my
experience the multiple or duocore do not offer great increases in
performance unless you run multiple applications at one time. We are
often running ArcGIS, Autodesk Map, and ErMapper at the same time so
multiple processors have helped us.

Tripp Corbin, MCP, CFM, GISP
Associate Vice President, GIS/Mapping
ESRI Authorized Instructor
Keck & Wood, Inc.
www.keckwood.com
(678) 417-4013
(678) 417-8785 fax

Keck & Wood, Inc offers instructor led and virtual training for ESRI's
ArcGIS & ArcView software.
Please visit www.keckwood.com for more information including a schedule
of upcoming classes.


-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence
Hartpence
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:24 AM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: [gislist] Workstation Recommendations


Hello,

What type of windows workstation would you all recommend for a stable
GIS editing environment. We use ESRI products. How much ram, type of
processor, brand of computer etc... is reasonable. Right now we use and
IBM running Windows XP with a 2.3 GH processor and I think 1 GB RAM,
but it seems to bog down easily.

Lawrence Hartpence
GIS Coordinator
101 1st St N
Newton IA 50208
641-792-3084
hartpence_gis@co.jasper.ia.us


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