archibaldo wrote:
Bricklyne wrote:
Just an observation but your video memory (video card RAM) is a little on the low side.
I have 4 cores and it already seems too little for my needs already and I'm looking to upgrade to either 6 or 8 cores in the future partly thanks to programs like AC.
For avoiding HDD bottleneck not only ramdisk is good but a true SSD for OS and Archicad itself not only temporary files .
More important than number of processor cores is processor speed .
For example a dual core with 4ghz is better than a quad core with 2 ghz because archicad is not fully multithreaded .
Recommend fastest proccesor and memory above 4gb
not biggest quantity with lower speed .
I don't think they make those any more (or at all).
I highly doubt you'll find dual cores made (if at all) with anything higher than 2GHZ speed.
I currently have an 8 core chip with 3.6GHz speed, and would still have to overclock it to get it over 4GHz or even to 4GHz.
In any case, I doubt that anyone upgrading to higher number of cores (4 or 6 or 8 cores) will be doing so and getting slower speed chips, but at the end of the day I have to dispute your claim that clock speed is more important than core number.
The way ArchiCAD utilizes multiple cores in multi-core systems is not the same way that something like Vray utilizes them in rendering - which is constantly and in a brute-force manner relying heavily on their speed.
ArchiCAD only utilizes the full capacity (or close to the full capacity) when performing certain functions which are expressly coded to take advantage of multiple cores (like generating Sections/Elevations) and these functions are less reliant on your core speed and more optimizing of the number of cores.
For most other functions ArchiCAD barely uses all the cores much less to their full capacity so speed becomes much less of a factor in this instance.
