Question for the hardware experts

[gcode]

Which would make a better MC/SolidWorks machine??

 

p4 3.2g 1g of 400mhz ram

or

Xeon 2.66 1g of 266mhz ram

same hardrive and video card

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

There's no substitute for cubic inches... errrr I mean Processor Speed.

 

[Bullines]

I know a lot of Xeons now have 2 or 4MB of L3 cache. Of course, we all know how much cache memory rawks! I think that would probably be zippier than the faster PC3200 RAM in the P4 system. If that Xeon, has the same amount of cache as the P4, then I'd go the P4 route. Other wise, the high-end Xeon's would have mondo kick.

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

The P4 'extreme' has 2 Megs of cache memory.

 

The P4 'HT' has 512k of cache memory.

 

The Xeon could have 512k/1meg/or 2megs of cache memory.

 

That being said, a slower computer with more level2 cache will execute programs faster than a computer with a faster clock, but smaller cache memory.

 

example: my P4 3.0g / 800 mhz ram 512k cache system is slower running test programs than

 

Pentium M 1.7g / 400 mhz ram 1meg cache machine.

 

Side by side the 'slower' processor consistently outperforms the 'faster' one.

 

Craig Madsen

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[gcode]

Thanks,

I was looking at the Xeon workstaions on the Dell

Outlet webpage. There are some nice prices,

but it looks like they all have the 512K cache.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

quote:

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...Of course, we all know how much cache memory rawks!...

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Forgot that part.

[Müřlıń®]

Hrmmmm.......

 

 

I feel the need.....

 

The need for speed....

 

I bet Proe would run really well on a a full grown XEON.....anyone dont that yet??

 

Don't even have to mention how fast Mastercam will run......

 

If I could just talk my boss into it

 

 

Murlin