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15 years ago

Quartus Performance - What Processor, Memory, Disk?

I'm about to get a new PC, and want to make sure that Quartus will run smoothly and fast. I'm managing increasingly large designs and I hate to wait, especially when working late :-) I've searc...
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15 years ago

There are differences between Quartus Web Edition and subscription Edition :

multiple cores cpus are useless for quartus web edition.

I think high level cache memory (l1, l2...) on cpus can help very much.

For RAM : I suggest to use only qdr-dram. The more, the better. But you need a good motherboard to employ those memory.

For OS : no idea between 64bit and 32bit edition of windows.

Vista was just a transition between XP and Seven.