George Lendich wrote:

Monty
How big a processor do you have to have to run this.

George (down under)

I would say minimum of P2 450 MHz. Decent graphics card, and 128 meg of

ram.

Better would be a new 1 Ghz machine with 256-512 meg of ram something

like

an ELSA GLORIA II video card.

I started out running it on an overclocked celeron 300a and it ran pretty
well at 300 MHz, better at 450. I now run it on a dual P3 800 with 256

meg

of ram. It is way overkill with Rhino. I need the power for the other

design

packages I run (I also need to add some ram while it is so cheap :-).

They

designed Rhino to run on a typical machine, so as long as you don't have
some old Pentium 90 or something, I think you would be fine. It would

just

be a little slow on really big files. The new machines are so powerful

and

cheap now, if you have one of those old machines I would look at

upgrading.

At least here in the states, you can get used machines in the 600-700 Mhz
range for dirt cheap.

Monty

George Lendich wrote:

Monty,
Many thanks, I need that info for an old engineer mate, who is designing a
new
engine. His system, which he paid mega-bucks some time ago, is no longer
supportable and he is suggesting Auto-Cad would be the most appropriate but
now he is retired, he didn't want to spend the dollars they want. I
appreciate your comments on Autocad.

Me ! I'm using Turbo Cad and I'm running it on an old 486 PC. so won't be
good for me until I upgrade.
George (down under)

 
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