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Here are a few interesting (and in some cases controversial) quotes from new Revit blogger, the Pragmatic Reviteer.” CPU – single threaded speed is the most important thing.In my experience, the main …
Cool tip from The Revit Convert on how to skip the splash screen and speed up the loading time of your Revit.exe. Just right-click on your Revit shortcut icon and go to Properties, then: From the Prop…
Basically, go to Computer Management, then: look down the left hand window for ‘Storage‘ > ‘Disk Management‘. Click on it and wait for drives to show up in the main window. Now right click on it and o…
Alexander Vysotsky makes the following recommendation: CPU – i7 second-generation Memory – 8 or 16 GB of DDR3 Video – NVidia Quadro, more accessible – GeForce (Budget) Hard Disk Drive – solid-state, m…
In the past, overclocking your graphics was risky, difficult, and yet at the same time it could be very beneficial. These days, it is easier to do, but video cards are often cheaper and some people ma…
6 cores with Hyperthreading, up to 3.9 GHz burst mode, 15 MB Cache – this thing is awesome. And the benchmark results to match: results via this link More specs at:Intel� Core™ i7-3960X Processor Extr…
You should check out Dev Eject. It allows you to view all of the ‘locks’ on a particular USB device. Very handy if you are unable to safely remove a USB device.Download 1.0.20 Home page:Dev Eject…
I’m waiting for a tablet PC that can run Revit – without its head in the cloud. In other words, I want it to be powerful in its own right. I don’t want to have to rely on someone else’s processor to d…
AMD has released the first true 8 core processors. Current Intel i-series chips have up to 4 cores with Hyperthreading, which displays 8 cores to the OS. However, the new AMD architecture may ultimate…
See image and link below (from Autodesk Support): viaAutodesk – Autodesk Revit Architecture Services & Support – How to prepare your system before installing Autodesk software…