Best Processor for Mastercam?

[Lucky]

I'll soon be buying a new Dell Workstation. Which processor would provide the greatest performance?

 

A) P4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz

512k L2 Cache

2 Mb L3 Cache

 

P4 3.8GHz EMT64

1 Mb L2 Cache

 

The processor will be working with 2 gigs of RAM and the nVidia Quadro FX 3700. I want a machine that can handle large models and calculate toolpaths FAST.

[Lee.]

My Money would be on B.

[Bullines]

B. It appears to have more onchip cache but you didn't list how much L3 was on the second CPU. 400MHz difference is negligable.

[cadcam]

That is hard by they both have large cache.

Don't really think there will be to much diffrence.

 

So I would go with the B

[Lucky]

Processor (A) has the L2 (512k) and L3 (2Mb) cache on chip - 2.5 megs total.

 

Processor ( has 1 meg L2 cache and no L3 cache.

 

Am I right in thinking that (A) has the cache advantage while ( has the clock speed edge. Which will be of greater benefit in Mastercam. Both processors support HyperThreading (will this benefit me?). Only ( will support the 64-bit version of XP. Will a 64-bit version of XP benefit me?

 

BTW Processor (A) costs about $400 more than (

[Jack Mitchell]

quote:

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P4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz

512k L2 Cache, 2Mb L3 Cache

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I bought the extreme edition at the premium of $1000.00 and I believe the level 2 cache is 2meg.

 

The performance between both systems is negligable, hence, buy what you want since it really does not matter in the grand scheme of things

 

 

Regards, Jack

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I'd take "B" if my money were on the line personally. Though I have a friend Glenn, that SWEARS by his 64bit AMD. Sez is ".... SMOKES INTEL's ..."

 

May want to take a gander at that one.