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Your computer workstation performance for SolidWorks is important to your productivity. To see if you are maximizing your performance compare your workstation performance with other users' systems. Use the New SPECapc SolidWorks 2007 Benchmark Test available from the SPEC website, http://www.spec.org/
Download the Benchmark test here, http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.static/sw2007.html
Compare your results to other systems.
http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.data/specapc_sw2007_summary.html
The SPECapc SolidWorks 2007 Benchmark is designed to represent a day in the life of a typical SolidWorks 2007 user. SolidWorks developed the benchmark. It is written in Visual Basic and C, and runs on Windows XP 32- and 64-bit platforms.
Eight tests are included within the benchmark: I/O-intensive operations, CPU-intensive operations, and six different graphics tests.
A single number is derived from a weighted geometric mean of the normalized score for all eight tests. Scores are also reported for each of the eight individual tests and for the geometric mean of the six graphics tests.
The reference system for computing the normalized ratio is a 2.4GHz Intel Xeon, Intel 860 chipset running Windows XP SP2 with 2GB of PC800 ECC RDRAM, an NVIDIA QuadroFX 1000 graphics card, and a 40GB ATA/100 hard drive.
Running the test
When you run the benchmark test you will see a succession of windows with instructions on running the test properly and collecting some system information.
Make sure you restart your computer and close all programs so only the benchmark test is running. Do not run SolidWorks, the benchmark test will start SolidWorks. Proceed to the test page by hitting the next button on each screen. See images below.
Opening Page
Data Collection
Benchmark Settings
It's a good Idea to run the default settings and do a complete test, leave the number of tests set at 5 to give you an average of multiple scores.
The Results
Compare these scores with other users and systems and see who has the most productive system! The Day in the Life score is a total average in time to complete all the tests. In this case it took 278.84 seconds to complete the benchmark test. The lower the time the better the score. The SPECapc score is a breakdown of the test time by each category and given a ratio based on reference system of the test, given the default score of one. In the case this workstation scored a ratio of 1.65, the higher the ratio the better the score.
If you want to see the breakdown of all the scores from each cycle of the test you can select the blue text line at the bottom of the results page and view the text file.
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