Inventor and multi core CPU issues

[Korone609]

Hello all. I have two questions related to inventor that I was hoping you all might be able to help with.

Question one:

I am currently running inventor on a Lenovo Yoga 730 for school. It seems that inventor only has support for a single processor core, and bottle necks itself to a fourth of my processor. I was hoping you all might have a solution I might have missed such as a driver or plugin or setting I may have missed.

 

Question two:

I am starting to save up for my first pc build and have started doing some research. The three things I really want it to run well are inventor, blender, and of course games. Where I am stuck is that I know a multi core processor will do better for the games and blender but, unless you all have a solution to the first problem, not for inventor. And if my understanding is correct I don't want to run games or blender on a single core processor. So what is the best option here? would it be worth trying to do a dual cpu setup with a multi core cpu for running games, a single core to run inventor, and then if I am not mistaken blender could take advantage of both? Can I even have two different models of cpu in the computer at once?

 

Thanks

[AndreiArgeanu]

You cannot have 2 different cpu's on a dual socket at all. They have to be the exact same model. Also, modern cpu's that work in a modern dual socket motherboard have often more than 8 cores at least and are pretty expensive and working with old server hardware isn't exactly the best idea. Also there isn't any drivers or settings you're missing, it's just the way the program was designed. Also whether you're running inventor on a single core or multi core cpu it doesn't matter, what matters is the clock speed of the cpu, like running the program on a single core cpu at 5ghz, or running it on an 8 core cpu at 5ghz won't make a difference in performance.

[Korone609]

3 hours ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

You cannot have 2 different cpu's on a dual socket at all. They have to be the exact same model. Also, modern cpu's that work in a modern dual socket motherboard have often more than 8 cores at least and are pretty expensive and working with old server hardware isn't exactly the best idea. Also there isn't any drivers or settings you're missing, it's just the way the program was designed. Also whether you're running inventor on a single core or multi core cpu it doesn't matter, what matters is the clock speed of the cpu, like running the program on a single core cpu at 5ghz, or running it on an 8 core cpu at 5ghz won't make a difference in performance.

Thanks for the fast response

So the clock speed listed is for each individual core then? sorry that's probably a little bit of a dumb question. completely new to this lol

[AndreiArgeanu]

3 minutes ago, Korone609 said:

Thanks for the fast response

So the clock speed listed is for each individual core then? sorry that's probably a little bit of a dumb question. completely new to this lol

Clock speed is for all cores however it varies on the load, for example on a single core load the cpu will reach the maximum advertised boost clock while on all cores it will be lower. For example 4.3ghz single core, 4.0ghz all core.

[Korone609]

40 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Clock speed is for all cores however it varies on the load, for example on a single core load the cpu will reach the maximum advertised boost clock while on all cores it will be lower. For example 4.3ghz single core, 4.0ghz all core.

Ok that makes a lot more sense. The way it was originally explained to me was that what is listed is the max number of commands the processor can complete in a given time frame when running at max capacity, Meaning that if a processor can run at 4.0ghz and has 4 cores it would run at 1.0ghz on each core.