Haswell i5
HD4000 iGPU...
Well I know it's possible... I've seen it running... what are the likely problems that would result from it?
Running Solidworks 2013, Office, E2, etc... engineering workstation...
Haswell i5
HD4000 iGPU...
Well I know it's possible... I've seen it running... what are the likely problems that would result from it?
Running Solidworks 2013, Office, E2, etc... engineering workstation...
Yes, you shouldn't have any problems running dual monitors. put do take note that it will run a little hotter than normal. especially while using cad GPU intensive programs.
Yea, the owner of the place I work for's an idiot... He asks me for help picking out a PC... I tell him I'll be happy to build him one off the clock (which I've already done for my workstation, works fantastic)... He asks me if the i5 is a good processor and what this difference is between an i5 and i3... So I tell him...
I asked him what the PC was going to be used for, and he says "general use", so I told him specifically if he was doing anything graphically intensive like CAD/CAM, he should get one with a standalone GPU or let me build it... He says no, nothing graphic intensive....
Then it gets here, and we hired a new engineer... it's his computer...
He's such a cheap bastard... hell even if you're gonna be a cheap bastard he could have let me build something decent... ...
solidworks is not GPU intensive, unless you are using OpenCL or CUDA accelerated ray-tracing or rendering.
hell, aside from rendering, ray tracing, and maybe simulation, an equivalently clocked i3 will perform the same as an i5 or i7.
the geometry operations are actually impossible to paralellize, as they are linear computations.
You should be able to just plug and play dual monitors. Plug one into DVI, and one into the HDMI.
I know it's not GPU "intensive"... But a CAD/CAM workstation without a dedicated GPU is borderline rediculous...
point in case... I built a FX 6300 / 7870 GHz Edition / SSD workstation for $700... and it just blows all the i5 integrated graphics (and 610M) laptops out of the water... it uses the GPU for a lot more that just ray tracing, simulation, and rendering.... for example, a huge part of putting assembly files together is rotating the camera (handled by GPU) into tight places where nuts and bolts need to mate... which is nearly impossible on those entry level i5 laptops...
and I agree... an i3 would have been just as sufficient... but with a mid-tier consumer grade GPU ($100-150 would have been more than sufficient)