Test File For PC 'Puting

[Storkman]

54 seconds - first time

18 seconds - second time

 

3.4gz p4

4 gig ram

dell 21" flat panel

win xp pro

[gcode]

My work machine

75 seconds first run

24 seconds 2nd run

 

3.2 P4

1 gig RAM

FX1000 video card

36gig SCSI harddrive

 

My home machine is a

3.2 P4 EE ( 2 meg L3 cache)

2 gig RAM

Quadro FX3000 video card

120 gig SATA HD

 

62 seconds first run

[Surface]

I'm using a 4 year old box. It was a pretty hot when it was new, but it begining to show its age. Although it can't compare to some of your times, it ran a respectable 68 second 2nd run.

 

AMD 700 mhz

256 RAM

9G 10000 rpm scsi HD

[jctjct]

55 sec

 

2.4 p4

3gig ram

antique monitor

xp pro

[Leehound]

First 55 sec

Second 24 sec

 

Dell Workstation

3.4 P4 Intel

1 gig Ram

Quadro FX500

[Storkman]

My box has hyper-threading. I had it turned off. When I turned it on and tried it again it knocked 6 seconds off the time. Does that sound right? I would have thought it to be the other way around.

[Storkman]

The manual says the L3 cache is only available for machines that support hyper-threading. Maybe it wasn't using the L3 when I had the hyper-threading turned off.

[Midwest]

First 46 sec.

Second 15 sec.

 

Dell P4

2.53 GHz

256 MB Ram

XP Pro

 

with----------

 

Internet radio running for shop

Local radar off internet (raining this morning)

forum on also

 

62 sec

 

[ 07-29-2004, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: Midwest ]

[HEAVY METAL]

35SEC 2ND TIME AROUND

[5 AX]

This test seems to be testing hard drive speed, more so than processor.

[DavidB]

64 sec First time

 

10 sec to regen second time.

 

Toolpaths also upside down can your PC do this?

Dell Work Station PW650.

Xeon 2.66

nvidia Quadro4 900 xgl video card

1 g Ram

[Eazy]

55 sec

 

AMD XP2000+

768 Mb Ram

GF4 MX420

 

Not too bad for a cheap computer!!!

[chip]

quote:

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My Dell regens it in 62 seconds.

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The first time 1.500 mins.

The second time 45sec.

 

I have 4 cards in my comp.

 

and running DNC, e-mail, explorer, SW 2004.

[chip]

quote:

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36 gig 10000 rpm sata drive

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WTF is that?

[James H]

That is a small but very fast hard drive.

[DC Gorn]

Somthing aint right. I tested 4 computers.

 

Dell 2.4 (No HT)(1 gig sys mem), GF 5600 (256 meg) "55 sec"

 

AMD Barton 3200 (1 gig sys mem), GF 5700 (256 meg) "65 sec"

 

Dell 3.0 (With HT) (1 gig sys mem) ,GF 5200 (256 meg) "70 sec"

 

This is the funny part:

AMD 2100 OC'ed to a 2800 (768 megs sys mem), ATI 9700 Pro with FireGL convertion (128 meg) 42 seconds.

 

 

The 2100 is my custom built home rig and it does do very well with Mastercam but, I also built the AMD 3200 every part of that computer is somehow faster then the 2100, Sata harddrive 200 FSB ver 166, Dual channel DDR memory. The only thing my home rig has over the 3200 is the extream memory settings allowed by the Corsair ram and cooling system.

 

I think we need a better test, that way we can figure out what hardware really helps and whats a waste of money.

[Trevor Bailey]

First regen = 65 seconds.

 

hp pavillion zd7000 laptop

p4 3.0ht

1 g ram

7200 rpm drive

128 mb GeForce FX57000 card

 

Sweet....

[mmonica]

First regen = 55 sec

Second regen = 22 sec

 

Dell Workstation PWS450

Xeon 2.40 Ghz

1 gig ram

Quadro FX500 - 128Mb

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

64 seconds 1st time

35 seconds 2nd time

 

This for those dudes who always have loads of stuff running...

Explorer

Internet Explorer

X Beta 2

Email client

Mastercam Help Window

 

Dell Dimension 4600

P4 3.06 GHz with H/threading

512Mb Ram

Geforce fx 5200 128Mb

[Greg McKay]

70 seconds. On a clean install

 

48 seconds seond time around

 

dell notebook

inspiron 8600

1.4ghz

512 ram

XP pro

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

[Jody]

3.0 GHz

2 gig mem

XP Pro

 

1 min 24 sec the first time

32 sec the second time

 

that was regen all three paths.

that sucks compared to the rest of you all with 3.0ish GHz.

 

Jody

[Mark H]

quote:

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that sucks compared to the rest of you all with 3.0ish GHz.

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Addtional varibles...

if the Display surface/plane intersections was selected, and also if the part was shaded or not...

[JG]

Actually I saw little difference with surface/plane intersections checked or not, less than ~1sec

[Jody]

quote:

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if the Display surface/plane intersections was selected, and also if the part was shaded or not...

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nope the display surface and the shading were both off.

i think it goes by how smart the pacuter operator is. or how quick your clicker is.

 

jody

[Code_Breaker]

quote:

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that sucks compared to the rest of you all with 3.0ish GHz.

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Jody, how about this:

 

P4

dual processor 3.20 GHz each

1 gig

Windows2000 5.00.2195 sp4

dual monitor (21"CRT, 17" LCD)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100

1280 x 1024 x 75 hertz

NVIDIA Dualview

1280 x 1024 x 60 hertz

 

MasterCAM 9.1 SP2 (no main.)

 

1 min 22 sec the first time

36 sec the second time

 

It should be faster . . .

 

Code_Breaker