Is someone using Dental System / Exocad ... build tips required

[KrazyT]

Hi all, as a long time reader of TechpowerUp, i need your help today.

First of all, excuse my English / American, i'll do my best

So, the question :

Is someone in the forum uses Dental Sytem (3 Shape) and or Exocad software ?
For thoses who doesn't know, it's an 3D building dental software.

I'm using Dental System for about 5 years, it's working good, but the PC selled with the soft (an old i7 from HP, those HP bloatware !!) have always been sluggish, and i'm looking for a new PC.

3Shape, the software maker, considers an i7 and and nVidia product with at least 6 GO of memory ans a max of Ram as always.

Is someone have already a build for these kind of sofware ?
I've looking for benchmark but i don't know wich one to look, the soft is a kind of Blender type ? A 3D building software ?
Is a i712000 KF > i513600K ?

If you have some experience on this kind of sofware, any kind of help will be welcome !

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Dental System software hardware requirement looks to be 10850H and Quadro T1000 or bigger.
Exocad would be 11900K and RTX 2060.

These are the recommended hardware requirements when searching " Dental System (3 Shape) Hardware requirements."

SO, yes a 13600K would suffice (or bigger) and RTX 2060 (or bigger)

 

[KrazyT]

Thanks for your replies ...

You're right for the specs, but they've changed, saying i7 and nvidia +6 GO now.

I could go for a "big" powerhouse, with an i7 13xxxK, or a tiny "cool" machine with an i5 13xxxK.
That's why I asked, is the i7 worth it with these kind of software (faster modelisation and calcul time) ? or a "simple" i5 should do it ?

What kind of software could be similar to Dental System / Exocad ... ?

Any advices are welcome !

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

What kind of software could be similar to Dental System / Exocad ... ?

Every software uses hardware differently. Probably Autodesk Inventor or Maya would be closest, or Blender.

That's why I asked, is the i7 worth it with these kind of software (faster modelisation and calcul time) ?

Depends on how much your time is worth. Will you save $300 worth of time over the next couple of years using it.

You may be required to use a Quadro type GPU. I know that SOLIDWORKS does not appreciate GeForce cards. As Dental System lists a T1000 as the minimum card, I suspect it may be similar.

 

[bonehead123]

Well, I can tell you from my work experience with engineering CAD/3D software (Revit, Navisworks, BlueBeam etc), it requires ALOT of horsepower, in the CPU, GPU and as much ram as will physically fit in the machine...

When I started working in this field, my company was running i9-9900k/Z390 machines with 6GB Quadro cards, sammy m.2's, and 64GB ram..... and they were draggin buttwhallah so bad it was costing us a ton of lost time waiting for things to render out & update in the live models....not to mention printing the final blueprints, O.M.F.G.......

So we upgraded to 12th gen i9 CPU's, RTX8000/48GB GPU's, and 256GB of ram.....problem solved

Our productivity increased so much that we were able to hire 14 new designers and take on several additional multi-million $$ projects, thereby increasing our revenue by 37% in less than 4 months after the upgrades

 

[KrazyT]

So we upgraded to 12th gen i9 CPU's, RTX8000/48GB GPU's, and 256GB of ram.....problem solved

Ouch, what a behemoth !
Don't think i need so much power, but i'll go for an i7, it's about 100/150€ more than a i5, it's not a steal.
A good cooling and there we go, productivity !