ARCHICAD optimization in matter of CPU

[Karol Argasinski]

Dear all,

I hope everyone is fine during times of coronavirus.

I am an Intel person and always have been. But I can see now, that AMD has improved in stability a lot and performance.

My firm is specialising in pointcloud and practically all ARCHICAD files that I have contains pointclouds. My current workstation has Intel i7-6700K CPU. It is still decent machine, but sometimes I feel lag with many tasks on board.

Has Ryzen risen ( ) to the task when we talk about ARCHICAD performance? Is ARCHICAD optimized enough with AMD? What are your opinions (Ryzen users)? I can read through Internet, that CPUs are great, gaming is wonderful, but: is it working great with professional apps?

My PC configuration:
Intel i7-6700K
64GB RAM (4x16GB)
RTX 2070

Basically, what I read, that for my graphic card, the best AMD CPU would be AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (I want to go with higher threads).

Feel free to comment, discuss. It is always good to learn something new!

Best,
Karol

[Lingwisyer]

Closed loop systems are just that, there is no need to bleed the system or replace the coolant. The down side of them is their lack of upgradability and customisation. I think I saw an article somewhere that someone had just released a double closed loop system that does your GPU and CPU on the same loop.



Ling.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Karol wrote:
Laszlo,

How often liquid has to be changed? Maybe it is worth trying...

I think: Never.
Actually, the reason I bought water cooling was that I was thinking about overclocking it.
I think today's Ryzen processors are very good so a good air cooling solution is all you need.

[Karol Argasinski]

LaszloNagy wrote:

Karol wrote:
Laszlo,

How often liquid has to be changed? Maybe it is worth trying...

I think: Never.
Actually, the reason I bought water cooling was that I was thinking about overclocking it.
I think today's Ryzen processors are very good so a good air cooling solution is all you need.

Okay, so I think I will dive into some research now