Hi Axel, re: "gaming pc/notebook" or a "cad pc/notebook"

Either should be fine but the CAD marketed one will be a much smaller market and will have a much, much higher markup and cost, with little actual benefit.

So I'd recommend targeting a gaming oriented system.

It would not hurt to look at a CAD workstation but I wouldn't be surprised if you would be seeing like 3x the cost.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

thanks for your reply and advise. There are indeed "CAD solutions" by famous notebook and PC makers and these are definetly aimed for large companies with same budgets.

But there are also very similar prices for gaming and CAD software use. The difference is the graphic card. There are those cards for gaming purposes and those made for CAD, I even just recently learnt about these CAD graphic cards.

I thought MOI has better performance on such dedicated CAD graphics and certain CPU types.



Best regards,
Axel

Hi Axel,

re:
> I thought MOI has better performance on such dedicated CAD graphics and certain CPU types.

Well that's what the graphics card companies want you to think but no it's not really the case.

The GPU vendors have special "CAD" editions but usually the "CAD" hardware is exactly the same as the "Gaming" hardware and the main difference (aside from a much higher price) is that they give you a better quality OpenGL driver on the CAD version.

That's why MOI doesn't use OpenGL by default for Windows.

By default MOI uses the Direct3D interface that is also used by most games. The GPU vendors don't play this "intentionally poor driver" upsell tactic with the Direct3D drivers.

If you are going to be using other CAD programs that do use OpenGL then it may be helpful to get the CAD version.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

thanks for clarifying that. It's really helpful for my decision.


Best regards,
Axel