SketchUp and Graphics Card

[ukracer]

Matth not Matt-h

Hey I made the same mistake a week ago. Lol

 

[ukracer]

OK, that gives you time to make a brew , but if it were mine I'd be considering defenestration
Can we assume it's set to load all work related programmes at startup?

I think we can assume it's busted. Lol

I had a windows 7 laptop that slowed to a crawl and boot time was 3 mins plus.
I upgraded to Windows 10 and it's useable .
But the Mono I purchased of here think it was from @PhillipM not sure though ran real slow notlong after I reinstalled windows 7. I was either send some instructions probably from @gaz1 or found them on the net that told me what startup programs etc to stop running. I think it might have been power tools as well .
Anyway the boot up was insanely quick....but since I switched to windows 10 it's quick enough and I have not bothered fiddling with it .

 

[PhillipM]

Yea, that machine used to boot to desktop in less than 10s IIRC.

 

[JMS1972]

OK, that gives you time to make a brew , but if it were mine I'd be considering defenestration
Can we assume it's set to load all work related programmes at startup?

Excellent use of one of my favourite words. .... Pick a window you're leaving.....

 

[Munkul]

I have been offered a gtx1060, 6gb when one of the offspring upgrades their PC. So does this support OpenGL 1.5 or higher?

Any use for SketchUp?

Yes and yes, it's a very decent card, even now

 

[Munkul]

i beg to differ windows xp runs even better on an ssd infact any system works better on an ssd
i have the 10,000rpm hard drives and enough of the 7200 as i hate the 5200 which is the newer green 4tb hard drive

the hard drive speed on those things are better than the 7200 boot systems they was good in there day

as goes for the ram usage on windows well its always been bleeding since day one and windows has never sorted it
no windows system ever refreshes your ram or gives you it back after usage

its the one thing windows has never done

i had to run freeramxp to keep my systems at full ram capacity and i was a heavy user then, computer on 24hrs a day for over a year no shut down just refreshed the ram of the system

cant do that with windows 7,8 or 10

Well... obviously any system works better on an SSD... what i meant was, XP was light enough on resources that a half decent 7200rpm drive could run it and not feel slow.

Not really sure what you're on about with ram capacity, if you have plenty of it you don't need to care...
I built my home PC with 8gb years ago, it ran win7 great. I upgraded to win10 on a clean install about a year ago and it runs faster than 7 ever did, they've definitely optimised a few things in 10.
Having said that, my work PC only has 8gb and I multitask all the time on it, it slows down if I have too much open at once. I only restart it once a month.... but again, it has a hdd so maybe thats it.

 

[J1nx]

I have been offered a gtx1060, 6gb when one of the offspring upgrades their PC. So does this support OpenGL 1.5 or higher?

If you had a budget of 10s rather than 100s then this is the best route, that cards worth over a £100 easy, possibly double than depending on edition. It was a mid-range card about 3 years ago and would still be very useable. A 1030 is still better than even the best current onboard graphics so you will notice a huge difference.

Nvidia list support here, it is included…
https://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-driver