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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Workstation Recommendations |
| Date: |
01/24/2007 09:10:00 AM |
| From: |
True, Cynthia D. |
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I agree! Spend as much as you can possibly afford on RAM and the
graphics card. Even if you upgrade your old machines with new RAM and
graphics cards, you will see significant improvement in your redraw
time.
Another hint: When editing an ESRI GDB compact/compress often. That
will improve your performance as well.
dt
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Tripp Corbin
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:48 AM
To: Lawrence Hartpence: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Workstation Recommendations
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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