Rob
Forum Moderator

12,000 frames may be a little excessive and is likely to require a fair bit of RAM. The cpu solver (Fluent) generally handles the processing on cpu, and only uses gpu for images, not processing. The GPU solver will use the gpu for solving, and not all post processing features (as per the cpu solver) are available. 

SSD is good where you're reading/writing a lot and also for laptops: we've broken far fewer drives since switching.Â