

In this entry, we’re (re)introducing you to AutoCAD’s specialized toolsets! What Are AutoCAD’s Specialized Toolsets? My personal advice is spend the $'s saved on a faster processor and/or SSD's which actually will be far more effective at speeding up your system.Welcome back to our What’s New in AutoCAD 2019 series. My own system uses 32GB on a Ryzen 7 with dual NVMe drives and running two or three photo editing programs concurrently still won't stress it. I think you'd be better off with 32GB, or if you really think you are going to get into serious video creation maybe 64GB. Consumer engineering applications don't need that amount of RAM, nor do prosumer grade video and photo editing programs. Just trying to figure out if its worth getting 128GB of RAM for what I do or get 64GB of RAM instead. I might eventually replace the Rywith a higher end Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 chip a few years from now when they are far cheaper than what they are today. Hahaha! I'm looking for reliability & longevity. Basically, this machine will be used for at least 10 years if it doesn't break. I don't really plan on overclocking or anything like that. The other option is getting a couple 2x16GB DDR4 3200 RAM kits. I would get a couple of 2x32GB dual channel DDR4 3200 RAM kits. I have the option of actually getting 128GB of RAM. I'd probably have to build a different Intel/Nvidia Quadro machine for that, though. I don't use Revit, but I might eventually have to learn Revit Structural. I can only imagine that AutoCAD will work better with this setup. It still works fine today, but the FX-8350 is kind of slow for other things. As a reference point, AutoCAD has worked extremely well with my older AMD FX-8350 CPU & Radeon R7 200 card. It's mainly 2d type work for AutoCAD, but once in a while I have to look at 3d drawings too. I think that AutoCAD, RawTherapee, & video editing will take the most out of the machine. I might eventually dabble in video editing as well. My nephew will also use the PC to edit videos on occasion. I mainly run a lot of engineering programs like Enercalc, Retain Pro, SP software (slab, columns, walls, etc.), AutoCAD, Excel sheets, & do a lot of batch processing with RawTherapee. I don't play videogames outside of using RetroArch for old-skool gaming like SNES, NES, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Sega Genesis, PlayStation, & stuff like that on occasion. I also have a Gigabyte RadeonRX 580 GAMING 8G video card. I have a Gigabyte B550 motherboard that it's going into.
