Workstation PC is not working properly with Mastercam 2018

[pro grammer]

Just now, gcode said:

I've had good luck with Dells

I bought at least 5 workstaions from the Dell Business Outlet store  over a twenty year period and never had a bit of trouble with any of them

Several of them have been given to young guys wanting to learn Mastercam and are still in service today

I'd probably still be buying Dells if they made work stations with i9's. these days

Dell was sued for knowingly shipping computers with faulty motherboard. They even shipped 1000 of them to their own legal team. They are way overpriced on top of that. 

[#Rekd™]

22 minutes ago, pro grammer said:

I'd probably still be buying Dells if they made work stations with i9's. these days

Just received 2 Dell desktops with Intel i9-9900K for the shop.

[pro grammer]

Bummer

[gcode]

12 minutes ago, #Rekd™ said:

Just received 2 Dell desktops with Intel i9-9900K for the shop.

Do they have Quadro video cards??

[#Rekd™]

3 minutes ago, gcode said:

Do they have Quadro video cards??

Yes. 

 

16 minutes ago, pro grammer said:

Bummer

Never had an issue with a Dell precision system, yes they cost but they last as well. 

[gcode]

Nice

[cncappsjames]

:bump: for relevence to current discussions...

[PNW_MFG]

On 4/24/2020 at 3:29 AM, gcode said:

Check out View/Multithreading

Set the cores to 8.

This will help with the newer high speed toolpaths that use multithreading

There is not much to be done for the old legacy surfacing paths.

You should also set Maximum available ram to at least 50% in System Config.

You might find this thread interesting

Benchmark 3.0

Can you explain setting the ram in the system conifg?

[gcode]

File/System Config/Toolpaths... Memory Buffering  at the bottom right corner

[PNW_MFG]

14 minutes ago, gcode said:

File/System Config/Toolpaths... Memory Buffering  at the bottom right corner

Ah, I thought they were talking about something else. I currently have mine set to 90%. 

[crazy^millman]

4 minutes ago, PNW_MFG said:

Ah, I thought they were talking about something else. I currently have mine set to 90%. 

I never set mine above 85%. I was setting it to 99% and then started getting major issues with my systems years ago. I kicked it down to 85% and my system was more stable.

[PNW_MFG]

2 minutes ago, crazy^millman said:

I never set mine above 85%. I was setting it to 99% and then started getting major issues with my systems years ago. I kicked it down to 85% and my system was more stable.

I have had this rig for all of 3 days so far, so have not had it long enough to notice any adverse affects. I might drop it down to be safe though.

[gcode]

If you set it too high, there will be no ram available for Windows and other apps

Then the system will have to do lots of read/writes to the hard drive to function

This will effect stability, performance and possibly cause lockup's and crashes