Test File For PC 'Puting

[specprogrammer]

What does this test really prove? Hard drive or RAM capabilities? What part does the video card play in the processing time? Do the allocation setting come in to play with this? Just asking, because my computer is running really slow. I ran almost three minutes on this test. I know my computer is out of date...800MHz 512MB Nvidia Gforce...but I would still like to get the best performance out of it till I get a new one.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Well if you compare your numbers with a comparable system, you should have roughly the same crunch times.

 

Video plays a part in processing time because time to display does play a part in completion time. If you have "Display Surface Plane Intersections" active (default setting) then video will play an even greater role in how fast it crunches.

 

I have a PIII-800 at home. I'll run the test on it and post the results...

[JG]

quote:

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65 seconds

Intel 2.8 1 gig ram

nvidia mx440 128 ram

Windoz xp pro

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34 sec in X, same pc.

 

Jg

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

HP Pavillion zd7000 Laptop

P-IV 3.4GHz W/ HT

1GB RAM - 512MB Allocated to MC

NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 64MB

XP Pro O/S

 

V9.1 MR0105

1st - 60 Sec.

2nd - 25 Sec.

 

X MR1 RC Beta on same computer.

1st Time 40 Sec.

2nd Time 15 Sec.

 

Not bad. Definitely a speed advantage to X.

[Matthew]

HP Pavilion ZD7140US Laptop

P4 3.0 Ghz W/ HT

1.25 GB Ram

Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 64MB

XP Home

 

X MR2

 

50 Seconds first time

18 Seconds second time

[Thee Rickster ™]

XP Pro

P4 3.2 Ghz dual core PC

4 gig ram

Asus nvidia 6600

 

X2 SP1

 

33 sec 1st time

10 sec 2nd time

[Cuda84]

XP PRO

Xeon 3.2 GHz

2Gig RAM

 

 

43 Sec. 1st time

15 Sec. 2nd time

 

Dual core kicks. Can't wait to try on my home computer.

[Mito@DeeringBanjos]

My old dell inspiron 8000 with pentium III 996 MHz 512 sdram and ATI mobility 128 AGP 4X 32 mb, first regeneration 125 seconds. not to bad for an older laptop.

 

 

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

Athlon FX-60 at 2.8ghz

Vista x64

X2-MR1

4 gigs ram

 

with eye-candy turned on:

1st time - 45 seconds

2nd time - 23 seconds

 

with eye-candy turned off:

1st time - 41 seconds

2nd time - 20 seconds

 

Same box - under XP PRO x64

 

1st time - 39 seconds

2nd time - 19 seconds

 

with Ramdrive PRO from www.superspeed.com

1st time - 22 seconds

2nd time - 15 seconds

 

No ramdisk at this time for Vista x64 or x32 - staying at XP for majority of time. (I am running dual-boot system at this time)

[wfcPain]

52 SEC

3.0 GHZ P4

2 GIGS

CHEAPO NVIDIA E-VALUE CARD

WINXP

EIDE 120GB 7500 RPM

[Dave-Newcastle]

Pentium 4 3.4Ghz (with HT)

2 Gig RAM

Nvidia quadro FX GO 1400 256MB

80 GB 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Drive

 

1st 34 Seconds

2nd 11 Seconds

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

1st 34 sec

2nd 14 sec

XP PRO

RAM Saver Pro

Asus SLI Deluxe

AMD 3500+

2Gig RAM

SATA Raid HD

SLI Mode on

(2) NV GeForce 6600 GT

 

I think this test is misleading as it doesn't really work the PC like a smaller stepover and Tighter tolerances would( I think some of the higher end PCs here would show a much larger gap on a more cpu taxing test). I have noticed the processing times seem to increase exponentially the more Toolpaths in a file and the fact that the second time is allways faster leads me to believe that memory is being tied up each time a Toolpath is generated eventually to the point in which time is spent freeing memory while processing.

 

Glad to see my 2yr old box is still competetive though.

 

Troy

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

Interesting I just ran this a few times while the toolpaths were clean and got slightly under 14 sec each time. Then I opened the view manager changed the WCS to the Green point in lower right corner.

This of course made the toolpaths dirty. Regen all checked returned just under 10 seconds.

 

Any guesses why that would be?

[MIL-TFP-41]

23 seconds first time to regen.

 

Core2Duo [email protected]

2gb ram

GeForce 7300GT

 

Looks to be smoking the Xeon crowd.

 

For a challenge, how bout verify time.

 

45.156 seconds

 

Tool tolerance = .008

STL Tolerance = .001

Quality = highest

Simulate tool (no turbo) and hit the fast forward.

[Thee Rickster ™]

My Home P.C.

3 yrs old

 

asus p4c 800 board

2 gig of ram

2.8 ghz hyperthreading

gforce nvidia 6200 256 mg

36 gig rapture 10000rpm

 

53 sec 1st time

19 sec 2nd time