Benchmark

[bogusmill]

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You really want to go AMD

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Not a chance

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The 780i is an AMD CPU motherboard.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...82E16813131255R

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813188027

[bogusmill]

Sorry my mistake. I was thinking 790 chipset.

[Guest]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813188025

 

 

[bogusmill]

I'm confusing Nvidia for AMD. My older boards were this combination. John, where can I get a better memory?

[#Rekd™]

Hi,

 

Can someone send me the mcx file to run this bench mark test? Since I reloaded X2MR2 onto my computer the sample files are missing.

 

I am running an Nvidia FX1700, what settings should I have?

 

Thank you

 

John

[#Rekd™]

Hi,

 

I found the file on the ftp.

 

John

[sandro]

Hi

3:53

Home build and modified @ Gigabyte X48-DQ6

E8600 @4300MHz all cooled by water

4 gigs RAM Mushkin

Evga8800GT video card

XP Pro - SP3

 

x²MRII SPI

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E8600 @4300MHz all cooled by water

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NICE!!!!!

 

Welcome to the Forum

 

What is the FSB bus on your OC?

[sandro]

Hi

 

The FSB is 430, the multi of this CPU is 10x

 

[ 10-18-2008, 05:33 PM: Message edited by: sandro ]

[PFABC]

Is that the first time processing or second??

[PFABC]

Hey can you process this file and another in this time or continue working on the design or continue creating other tool paths?

 

People for a Better CAM

[Jayson Kramer]

I have done testing with the Quadcore and did the test with one session and then 4 crunching the same file. there was a 20 second difference for me.

[PFABC]

Jay,

with what software? I hope you are not talking about Mastercam. Mastercam is not capable of processing on multiple cores.

[sandro]

Hi

 

@PFABC

I did it 2 times in 3:53

 

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For my next trick I am going to bump up to 8 gigs RAM and kill my paging file. Have to wait for the new RAM to arrive on Tuesday.

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@John

Don't wonder if disabling the pagefile takes no effect, windows is always paging.

And more ram is probably a little bit slower - the OS have to adress more ram, and this also takes time.

 

[ 10-19-2008, 05:00 AM: Message edited by: sandro ]

[PFABC]

Sweet

[sandro]

Update,

 

The time now is 3:39

I switched off a few processes. (Networkconnection, Antivirus, Soft-Firewall, Firefox...)

 

I did not thought that it takes so much effect.

[PFABC]

On the one core?

[sandro]

Yes, on one Core, like MC works on a Dualcore CPU.

No special settings.

[PFABC]

As I had stated.

[Jayson Kramer]

Yes on MC sir.

[PFABC]

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Yes on MC sir.

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Jay,

 

You say that so proud.

 

Is that the best time to date? Is there any evidence that Mastercam will incorporate multi-core processing to further enhance these results.

 

Now that these times have been achieved I'm wondering if anyone is open to trying it on a real world file that will separate the men from the boys. This is run software in the real world, not just by manipulating the tolerance but by trying to verify and create STL to use as CAD files fo consecutive toolpaths, remachine operations and the like. Validation on anything engineered in this world is to establish its weakest areas and vulnerabilities.

[Jayson Kramer]

Keith, you bring up the machining of STL as you feel that mastercam does not do well with STL. do you feel this is a large issue?

 

(You say that so proud.) Just answering that it did do a good job and that the newer hardware does make a difference.I agree that I am looking forward to when MC will take advantage of the multi core platform.

 

I know that all have used the one file, it was just a base of one file that all share to see how the computers or as show here hardware doe's make a difference. I am sure that there are more files besides the one that came as a sample. but does this really set much of a difference on how the hardware with compare to other hardware?

 

Thanks for the input.

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@John

Don't wonder if disabling the pagefile takes no effect, windows is always paging.

And more ram is probably a little bit slower - the OS have to adress more ram, and this also takes time.

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This was certainly the case in my testing, I did reinitialize the paging file after my testing.

 

I have a new motherboard, should be showing up tomorrow, bought an

 

XFX MB-N780-ISH9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI Intel Motherboard

 

ASUS has really pi$$ed me off, so I will not purchase another one. I will return the dead board for replacement and then sell it and be done with ASUS.

 

So if we're getting sub 4 minute times, on a single core, if we can process those 3 tool paths simultaneously in parallel instead of one at a time it is I think realistic to see sub 2 minutes for a good system.

 

I have heard multi-core support is coming to a Mastercam installation in the near future.

 

In the meantime, those who can, will OC

 

[bogusmill]

While MC is not a multithreaded app all 4 of my Xeon cores show activity running the bench. One core is processing toolpath, one helping with display, and the rest is just the 12Mb shared L2 cache. I have run 2 instances of MC benchmark simultainously with no time difference. I changed cutter size in one .002 smaller just so I wasnt generating the same thing twice.

 

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Now that these times have been achieved I'm wondering if anyone is open to trying it on a real world file that will separate the men from the boys.

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We have some 88 inch wing surfaces that might qualify. I know it isn't MC but a verify of the benchmark might be a good test. Also

 

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Doesn't count. Your in Switzerland. You have metric clocks and most likely running metric Mastercam. Just kidding about the clock but not about MC metric. We run the inch version and there is definately an unfair time advantage for metric.

 

Run it again in inchs, you'll add 5-10 seconds.

 

I'd like to see those with MCX3 put a screen capture of the log file like I did below. This eliminates inacurate times from watching a second hand or pushing start/stop buttons. This resides in your system tray. The 8min 5.7...second time is my laptop and is 5 seconds quicker than I clocked it with a stopwatch.