I just started working at this Architectural company 3 months ago and we have AMD workstations which are rather tardy and occassionally freezing or shutung down, or something. We use heavy graphic applications like Revit, 3DStudio Max, AutoCAD and Photoshop and the processors are not helping. I have been in touch with our IT guys but they do not seem to know what they are doing or they are just swindling us with cheap equipment. Can anyone advise me on what upgrades or changes I can do to increase productivity? Oh yeah, my general specs are

Basic drafting workstation
2.2 to 2.6ghz Athlon processor
1GB of ram
32mb open GL video card
40gb hard disk
Windows XP Pro & office 03

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Edit: Wrong forum for the angry guy ... you see how scared I AM ??

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FABOLOUS, my reply must be very late. But I hope this is still valuable. You might want to upgrade your RAM and check the power supply of the computer. The power supply might be broken that's why the PC restarts automatically. Are you still working in the same company you mentioned?

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Are you kidding me? If the computers are even running almost 5 years later I would be surprised. Why do people dig up such old old threads?

QB

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Hey... I was running S423 P4 before my current system! With 512 MB SDRAM!

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My system:
AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3.0GHz
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333 16GB (4x4GB)
Gigabyte GA-880GMA-USB3
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320 (X2)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB
RAIDMAX Fusion case, 680W PSU

To check for this close whatever you are doing and start task manager. To do this right click on the task bar at the bottom of your screen and then select task manager. From the window that appears click on the performance tab and look at the CPU usage. If it constantly rises above 50% even when you are not doing anything your computer is suffering from this problem.