To give a back story to this thing. The reseller I work for wanted to create a scaling computer spec configuration utility to give recommendations to clients when asking for computer specs. What we did was request files from client companies for different disciplines, project types and sizes to get a wide range of files to work with. We then started running AU Bench on these with the different computer configurations in the spreadsheet to figure out the best performance to price ratios for different user levels and project sizes. The basic idea behind all of this was to not simply throw out a top end spec to every person that asked but to give customized computer specs based on the user and the average project size they work on.
The entire thing derives the final spec on basic 'weights' of the user type, discipline and project size. So basically, a light user that does architecture design on ~50,000 sq. ft. projects does not need the same computer as a super user doing 125,000+ sq. ft. projects and so on. Give it a look see and let me know what you think could be done to improve this. Currently it is based off of a sampling of about 60 projects but further refinement never hurts. There are some spec options in it that simply cannot be changed as the technical support director would not budge on them, such as speccing quadro cards for some of the higher end systems despite research and data showing that they are incredibly overkill for everyday Revit use.
Now attached. Thanks Munkholm, using WinRAR it comes in just under the limit.
System Configurator.zip
The entire thing derives the final spec on basic 'weights' of the user type, discipline and project size. So basically, a light user that does architecture design on ~50,000 sq. ft. projects does not need the same computer as a super user doing 125,000+ sq. ft. projects and so on. Give it a look see and let me know what you think could be done to improve this. Currently it is based off of a sampling of about 60 projects but further refinement never hurts. There are some spec options in it that simply cannot be changed as the technical support director would not budge on them, such as speccing quadro cards for some of the higher end systems despite research and data showing that they are incredibly overkill for everyday Revit use.
Now attached. Thanks Munkholm, using WinRAR it comes in just under the limit.
System Configurator.zip
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