I'm using an i7-9700k. IT must have put a nice cooler in the system on it because it runs near 5Ghz all the time. Sadly, it still isn't enough to handle PCDMIS when working on large programs. As
Benedictj1 says, the software does not take advantage of mulitiple cores. PC-DMIS can be completely bogged down processing something like a feature name change and my system will have something like 15% utilization (The processor can handle 8 threads at a time). All the cores will are used, but I'm guessing only one at a time in rapid succession.
Just out of curiosity, I used the task manager to force PCDMIS to run on just one core while editing a large measuring routine. It seemed no different than when all the cores were sharing the load.
If I were to spec out a new system, I would focus on single core performance. It might also help to have a lot of L2 and L3 cache too. I don't know if that would help, but sometimes I wonder if it would. Some of those new Core i9's have some crazy good single core benchmarks.
My L1 = 640KB, l2 = 2.5MB AND L3 = 20MB. That's really really good and I still have issues. I think my processor is overclocked at around4.9 GHz, that really good as well.
My L1 = 640KB, l2 = 2.5MB AND L3 = 20MB. That's really really good and I still have issues. I think my processor is overclocked at around4.9 GHz, that really good as well.
