RECOMMENDED HARDWARE FOR PALETTE CAD

Minimum requirements

Computer:

  • Pentium III 800 MHz
  • RAM 1024 MB
  • Min. available on hard drive. 10 GB
  • DVD drive (double layer)
  • Minimum graphics card 16 MB (1024x768, 24-bit)
  • USB 1.1 or higher
  • Windows XP Home or Professional SP2

Hardware recommendations for new purchases:

Notebook:

  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad, Core i5/i7 / AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core / quad-core or hexa-Core (recommended: Intel Core i7)
  • Display: 15.6“ or larger (recommended: 17“ widescreen display)
  • Graphics card: NVIDIA with min. 1024 MB, ideally GTS or GTX series, e.g. GeForce GTS 360M
  • RAM: 4 GB or larger (ideally: 8 GB)
  • Hard drive: min. 160 GB (recommended: min. 500 GB)
  • Drives: DVD burner combo drive (double layer) or Blu-ray
  • USB 2.0 (for program protector plug)
  • Windows XP , Vista or Windows 7 (32-bit / 64-bit) (recommended: Windows 7 64-bit)

Computer:

  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core i5/i7, AMD Athlon/Phenom I/II 64 X2 dual-core / quad-core or hexa-Core (recommended: Intel Core i7)
  • Graphics card: NVIDIA with min. 1024 MB, ideally GTX series, e.g. GeForce GTX 295 RAM: min. 8 GB (ideally: 12 GB)
  • Hard drive: min. 500 GB (recommended: 1 TB)
  • Drives: DVD drive with burner (double layer)
  • Internet connection
  • USB 2.0 (for program protector plug)
  • Windows XP , Vista or Windows 7 (32-bit / 64-bit) (recommended: Windows 7/ 64-bit)

Printer:

Current photo ink-jet printer, e.g. Epson, Canon

Graphic cards list

These graphics cards should at least support the OpenGL extensions needed for the “Light”, “Ambient Light” and “Artistic” views.

Manufacturer

NVIDIA Corporation

Models:

  • NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9 Series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 100 Series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 300 Series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX Series

Mobility products can also be used, although they have a lower performance that the desktop products.?The "Ambient Light" view is extremely CPU-intensive and benefits most from the graphics card performance. We would recommend mid- to upper price range graphics cards. For more information visit www.nvidia.com.

Here are some of the products we have tested:

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS/GT (*)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8600M (**)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (*)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT (**)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (*/**)
  • NVIDIA GTX 260 (****)
  • NVIDIA GTX 295 (****)
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 (*/**)
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M (**/***)

(*) = Tested in-house on Windows XP
(**) = Tested in-house on Windows Vista 32-bit
(***) = Tested in-house on Windows 7 32-bit
(****) = Tested in-house on Windows 7 64-bit.

ATI cards currently have only limited run-capability on Palette CAD! These will possibly run with new drivers in the future. We recommend nVidia graphics cards.