Benchmark

[Kyle Waters]

What would you possibly do with dual 30" monitors? I have dual 2407s from Dell, I can"t imagine needing more...but just to have, maybe if the boss was paying.

[Lee.]

About 7 Minutes.

[bogusmill]

I have twin 2405's and its nice, however the guy who runs the Catia training here has twin 30's. It truly is wallpaper, I can barley see the wall behind them.

 

Cadcam, you do know that the 27" has the same max resolution as the 24? Go with the 30's.

[Roger Peterson]

James, I'm very interested to see which dell you have as well as the benchmark times. I'm looking at new dell laptops as we "speak".

 

 

later,

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Ok, here's the skinny

 

Dell Precision M6300 Laptop

800MHz FSB

4MB L2 Cache Intel Core 2 Duo X7900 Extreme @ 2.8 GHz

2GB RAM

NVidia Quadro FX1600M VIdeo @ 1440 x 900

Original Dell Drivers and settings(we'll see how this works)

 

Shading turned Off, DIsplay Surface Plane Intersections turned Off

 

First Time Through - 8:16.109 (±.1 sec)

 

Second Time Through - 2:39.797 (±.1 sec)

 

This machine is out of the box pretty much. All the garbage they install, services still running. Once I get some time with it I'll kill unneeded garbage and do it again.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Oh, 7200 RPM 120GB HDD

 

and the Quadro is 512MB.

[Kyle Waters]

Both of mine :

 

Desktop : 6:07

Dell Precision 390

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93GHZ

4 Gig of RAM @ 333Mhz

Nvidia Quadro FX4500 512mb

80 Gig HD 10000 rpm

XP Pro SP2

 

Laptop : 8:58

Dell XPS M1210

Intel Core 2 Duo T7200(2 GHz)

2 gig of RAM @ 333 MHz

NVidia GeForce Go 7400 256 Mb

120 gig HD 7200 rpm

XP Pro SP2

 

These look pretty good for less than $3500 for both...I love refurbished!

I am intrested in seeing the new laptop times, like the precisions from Dell

[Mic]

Kyle

 

Have a look at the bottom of page 7. There you'll find the time from my new Dell Precision M6300.

[Kyle Waters]

Michael,

 

Thanks

 

You got me by 2 minutes, maybe I will be shopping again next spring. I am sure the outlet will be plenty stocked by then! It is amazing how many thousands you can save...

[shazam/TPP]

12'30"

 

Dell Precision PWS 390

pentium 4 3.00GHz

2.99GHz, 2.00 GB ram

Win XP PRO SP2

NVIDIA QUADRO FX3450/4000 SDI

[Greg_J]

8:10

Nothing tweeked, another MC window open as well as Cimco Edit.

 

Greg

[Mastercam Mike]

6 min: 5 sec:

 

Desktop

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3GHz

Crucial Ballistix 4 GB ram

4 Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM drives Raid 10

ABIT IP35 Pro motherboard

EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB

yes, Vista Ultimate 64 bit

 

Vista rules.....

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

Roger they are called SSD(Solid State Drives)and I was hoping someone here had tested them as well. The wiki page on them says 5 times as fast as the fastest HD for SSD flash based drives. The biggest advantage of the SSD is for those who use laptops the drives run cooler and are near shockproof. Prices as of today for 32GB SATA 2.5" from $400+ not exactly cheap HP for your computer.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Tom's Hardware has a pretty good review of them. The summary is that unless you're making a hardened computer or money is truly no object, wait until capacity goes up and prices come down.

 

There are also a few different kinds of SSD's. Some are optimized for low power consumption (almost zero in idle) while others are optimized for speed.

[Tinny]

If the metric file runs a lot faster then surely this is time for you Yanks to adopt the metric system?

 

( Runs for cover!! )

[kkominiarek]

11 min 31 sec

 

Brite Computers D945GTPX (local company)

pentium D 3.4 ghz

2 gb ram

xp pro sp2

[Tinny]

Metric file in 4min 12secs

Inch file in 6min 34secs

 

Dell Precision pws390

Intel QX6700 @ 2.66GHz

4mb Ram

Quadro FX3500

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

Testing customers Core2 QUAD -

 

7:30 1st run

1:16 2nd run

 

2.4 ghz 4meg cache

160 gig hd

Quadro FX 550

Vista 32bit with setting 'optimized for performance'

2 gigs of RAM

 

Dell Precision 390

[Steve Hattori]

Craig did you ever have any luck getting Ramdisc to work?

I've been on the fence for buying a SSD to try out, but it I think Bogus is right- it reads a lot faster, but doesn't write much faster. Since the regen and temp file have to be written, it seems there won't be that much improvement. Still like to try one...

Bumped my OC to 3.2ghz, time came down to 5:18...

 

E6600 core2duo

Asus P5 mb, using Asus Tuner for the OC.

Still pretty fast for a cheapo setup..

A functioning Ramdisc would be super, if only..

[Thee Rickster ™]

Hey Craig, my QUAD was slower than my Cor 2 DUO!

 

Maybe its the X2 that is faster???

 

WORK PC - 6 min 47 sec (back in Aug)

X2 (without)SP1

1x intel core 2 duo

P.C. XP PRO

3.25gig Ram pc5300 667Mhz

Quadro FX1500

 

HOME PC - 7 min 5 sec

X2 MR2

1x intel core QUAD

P.C. XP PRO

3.25gig Ram pc5300 667Mhz

Quadro FX1500

 

Rick

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

Steve -

 

Running on Vista I don't get any improvement, Vista swaps the memory drive to the hard drive after a few minutes.

 

On my XP laptop it works pretty well, cutting about 35-40% on initial and subsequent runs. But I can't use it on the laptop with large files since I only have 2 gigs of memory and overflow to the hard disk getting a major slowdown.

 

Rickster, I will load X and X2 on MY desktop and compare side by side to see if it is slower or faster. I don't want to mess with the customers' setup too much. I am tweaking some registry settings and have gained a few seconds here and there with the initial time dropping to 7:05. (The tweaks having to do with swapping core functions and disk cache management - sometimes inconsistent/mixed results over time).

[PeterM]

Dell precision 490

Intel Xeon 2.66ghz

2 gig ram

Xp pro

Nvidia nv285(go figure)

 

7:27 Was my original time. I installed Nvidia's

nTune, V14.4.400.11 which allows overclocking without altering the bios.

Overclocking to 2.99 ghz resulted in a time of 6:56

Overclocking to 3.5 ghz gave me a net time of 6:50 . core temp topped out at 52 deg. c

[Steve Hattori]

Craig, i must be holding my mouth wrong or something- I can't get ramdisc to work on laptop XP32 or desktop XP64. I even read the directions...

 

Peter, I tried ntune and had some strange things happen, so I took it off. If you have an Asus MB, you might want to try thier OC software- it cut about 2.5 minutes off my time- from 7:30 down to 5:20 or so. This was going from 2.66 ghz to 3.2.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

After doing some "performance" vs. "quality" tweeks to my laptop

 

I was able to get the following;

6:59.766 first run

1:10.234 second run

 

Below was the very first time through with this same machine.

 

quote:

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Ok, here's the skinny

 

Dell Precision M6300 Laptop

800MHz FSB

4MB L2 Cache Intel Core 2 Duo X7900 Extreme @ 2.8 GHz

2GB RAM

NVidia Quadro FX1600M VIdeo @ 1440 x 900 512MB

Original Dell Drivers and settings(we'll see how this works)

7200 RPM 120GB HDD

 

Shading turned Off, Display Surface Plane Intersections turned Off

 

First Time Through - 8:16.109 (±.1 sec)

 

Second Time Through - 2:39.797 (±.1 sec)

 

This machine is out of the box pretty much. All the garbage they install, services still running. Once I get some time with it I'll kill unneeded garbage and do it again.

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Looks like I shaved about 1:15 and change... not bad. I still think I can get it better...

[Guest]

wELL MY HP dv9010

 

AMD Turion64/X2 1.8 Ghz

2 gigs RAM

NVidia Go6150

 

12:30