[plug] Overclocking

[Brad Campbell]

On 16/03/13 16:16, Leon Wright wrote:
> I'd be careful with over clocking, it really only makes a difference for
> bragging rights these days.
>
> I'd be working towards working out where the bottle neck is first.
>

Oh, I know where the bottle neck is.

I'm running Win7 in a virtual environment, therefore Autocad can't take 
advantage of any acceleration provided by a video card.

I have two ways around it. One is to make the machine go as fast as I 
can, and the second is to re-partition my desktop machine and install 
Windows 7. I chose the former as I take the latter to be absolute last 
resort.

I can honestly say that overclocking this machine from 3.5Ghz to 4.7Ghz 
has made a _world_ of difference for this particular use case. The extra 
CPU speed translates directly into a snappier and much more pleasant 
user experience, so I really do want it to go as fast as I can.

Autodesk acknowledge that due to it's development legacy, AutoCAD is 
primarily single threaded and therefore responds directly to machine 
speed rather than trying to scale across cores.

Admittedly, this is a bit of a perverse use case, but then I never seem 
to do things the easy way.