Hardware Know your bottlenecks Posted by Greg Corke - April 6, 2020 Quick guide to understanding how software works will help you get more from a workstation budget - whether for design,… Read More
Hardware AMD Phenom II X4 processor Posted by Greg Corke - February 24, 2009 Back in 2005 the workstation sector was all about AMDand its Opteron CPU. At that time the Opteron wiped the… Read More
Hardware Intel Core i7 Processor Posted by Greg Corke - February 24, 2009 The big news at the tail end of last year was the launch of Intel’s brand new Core i7 chip.… Read More
Hardware Apple first out of the blocks with new generation Xeon (Nehalem) processor Posted by Greg Corke - March 5, 2009 This week Apple lifted the lid on Intel’s new Xeon processor, way in advance of the other major workstation vendors,… Read More
Hardware Autodesk takes lead in harnessing graphics power for CPU tasks Posted by Greg Corke - June 24, 2009 Over the past couple of years there’s been an incredible amount of hype surrounding the use of GPUs (Graphics Processing… Read More
News Spatial to help CAD/CAM/CAE software developers take advantage of multiple CPU cores Posted by Greg Corke - July 29, 2009 Applications running Spatial’s new ACIS thread technology should thrive on multi-core workstations, such as this beast of a machine from… Read More
News Siggraph 2010 #2: GPU, CPU, HPU. Who cares? Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 29, 2010 At Siggraph 2010, a not-so-subtle battle is taking place. It’s the battle of the graphics computing future. Depending on whom… Read More
News Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor changes the game for the entry-level CAD workstation Posted by Greg Corke - January 14, 2011 While many of you probably don’t care too much about workstation hardware, some of our readers certainly have an unhealthy… Read More
News SIGGRAPH 2012 #3: AMD’s all-in-one FirePro GPU / CPU Posted by Greg Corke - August 7, 2012 AMD FirePro A300 Series features an AMD FirePro GPU and an AMD ‘Piledriver’ x86 CPU on the same chip. In… Read More
News DEVELOP3D CAD/CAM/CAE workstation special report Posted by Greg Corke - February 13, 2013 A full 20 pages of CAD/CAM/CAE workstation loveliness yours for free Due to popular demand, we’ve now made our 20-page… Read More