Benchmark

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I see a bunch of people listing an SSD in their configurations, but which brand and model SSD are you using? I'm trying to pick one out and I'm seeing that some have faster read times, others have faster write times etc. and I don't know what to look for.

[GF8er]

I see a bunch of people listing an SSD in their configurations, but which brand and model SSD are you using? I'm trying to pick one out and I'm seeing that some have faster read times, others have faster write times etc. and I don't know what to look for.

 

 

I'm using a Intel 320 Series 120 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive

 

I havent used any other ssd's to compare it to though.

[YoDoug®]

New puter day today.

 

Dell M6600

Win 7 64 pro

I7 quad 2.3 ghz

16Gb ram

Nvidia Quadro 2000

128Gb SSD

320Gb 7200 secondary

 

X5 MU1 benchmark 56.2

X6 64 benchmark 52.4

 

I was surprised to see the times between both versions so close.

[RENO510]

HP Z200 SHOP WORKSTATION #1

I7 870 2.93 GHZ

SEAGATE 250G STORAGE

UPGRADE 16G RAM (MAX)

UPGRADE CORSAIR FORCE 90G SSD SATA2 (NO SATA 3 ON THIS MOBO)

WINDOWS 7 PRO

NVIDIA QUADRO 2000

6.9 WINDOWS EXPERIENCE INDEX

 

X6-64 BENCHMARK 1M 8.381S

 

HP 8200 ELITE SHOP WORKSTATION #2

I7 2600 3.4 GHZ

UPGRADE 16G RAM

UPGRADE 250G SSD SATA3 6G

UPGRADE 1000G STORAGE

WINDOWS 7 PRO

NVIDIA QUADRO 2000D

6.8 WINDOWS EXPERIENCE INDEX

 

X6-64 BENCHMARK 44.316S

 

HOME BASE WORKSTATION #3

 

EVGA X58 FTW3

I7 950 3.06 GHZ

12G 1600MHZ RAM

QTY. 2 CORSAIR FORCE 120G SSD SATA3 RAID 0

CRUCIAL C-300 60G SSD (CACHE FOR STORAGE DRIVES)

1000G WD 7200RPM CAVIAR BLACK STORAGE DRIVE

250G STORAGE DRIVE

WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE

QTY. 2 NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS450 IN SLI MODE

7.3 WINDOWS EXPERIENCE INDEX

 

X6-64 BENCHMARK ..............COMING SOON

[shazam/TPP]

x6

MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1

Intel Xeon W3565 @ 3.20GHz

6.00 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz

Dell Inc. 09KPNV (CPU)

H243H (1920x1080@60Hz)

H243H (1920x1080@60Hz)

2048MB Quadro 4000 (nVidia)

293GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLHX-75JJPV0 (RAID)

 

55.987 seconds!

[gcode]

Both the software and the hardware have improved dramaticly over time.

If you go back to the early days of this thread under 10 minutes was a hot machine.

I have an old Dell workstation in my garage. It was a beast in its day..

and it ran the benchmark in 13 minutes.. now I use it for a stool to sit on when I take off

my work shoes

[Smit]

Are we still using the original HST-CORE-HORIZONTAL-RASTER.mcx file for this benchmark?

[gcode]

yes but setting the tolerance to .0001 in all the toolpaths

[Thee Rickster ™]

Home p.c. X6 (3+yrs old)

 

Core 2 duo 3.16ghz

8 gb ram

win 7 ultimate 64 bit

gtx 250

 

 

1.29 min

___________________________________

 

Work p.c. X6 (1year old)

 

Core i7 970@ 3.19ghz

12gb ram

win 7 Profesional

nvidia quardro 2000

 

59 sec

__________________________________

 

I thought this machine would be alot better then my

home POS....lol

[austing]

1 Min 24 seconds

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

3 Min 25 seconds

 

Students new to Mastercam often ask what are the minimum specs for a computer that will run Mastercam.

The performance of this low end build surprised me. It seemed to perform as well as (maybe better than) an old P4 single core I once used.

 

Playing around just for laughs:

Intel Celeron E1200 CPU, 512K Cache, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz FSB

MSI G31 Motherboard

2Gb ram from my junk drawer

Geforce 310 video card

Windows7 64-bit

 

I slapped this together from spare parts laying around my garage. It was a boring Sunday afternoon.

I didn't expect it to handle Win 7 or Mastercam but it did. Boot up was a little slow, but 2D stuff seemed

to be working OK. Backplot and verify were acceptable but a little slow with the on-board G31 graphics. I threw in

a $30 geforce 310 card and verify ran 3 times faster.

 

I would still never recommend a Celeron as a new build for a Mastercam rig but if you already

have this type of computer and you just want to start learning how to use Mastercam at home then you are ready to go.

[Bucko]

No can do - not at level 3.

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

No can do - not at level 3.

 

Yes it does work with mill level 3. The 3 min 25 seconds was done with the 3D benchmark file which is a mill level 3 file.

Again just to clarify, I would never recommend a celeron for an experienced mastercam user or for real work.

I am just saying there are newbies out there that don't have the money to buy a new pc. If they already have

the E1200 celeron cpu or better they can START to learn mastercam with it. All of us (including me) like to post

our fastest times with our highest end hardware. I thought it would be interesting to go the low end just to see

what it could do. Like I said before I was bored that day and just playing around.

[compressor sam]

54 seconds

 

X6

 

Dell Precision M4600 laptop

i7 2820QM 2.3ghz 8mb cache

 

win 7 64 bit pro

 

16gb ram 1600mhz ddr3 dual channel

 

Nvidia quadro 2000m 2gb gddr3

[OlderthanDirt]

1:24

 

Dell T5500

Intel Xeon Cpu E5530 @2.40GHz (2 processors)Dual Quadcore

6 GB RAM

Win 7

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Intel Raid Controller

 

I have my shade tolerance set to .0001, wonder if that slows it down much?

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

0:52

 

Dell Vostro 460

Intel I5-2400 3.1 GHz

4 GB Ram

7200 rpm HD

Win 7 Pro 64-bit

Quadro 600

 

Just got 3 of these Vostros for our classroom. Replaced our last old Pentium D820s.

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

and this is backplot times or verify times ???

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

and this is backplot times or verify times ???

 

Neither. This thread is all about toolpath regeneration times at .0001 tolerance.

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

55 sec

[mayday]

54.3 seconds with multi threading active

1m 44 sec without multi threading

 

dell M6600 laptop 8gig

[Mic]

New rig at home 40.5s

 

i7-3930k

16GB Memory

240GB Intel 520 SSD

Win 7 Pro 64 bit

X6

[TOOLDEV]

Time: 3 min 30 sec

 

Desktop

Dell Precision T5400

Intel Xeon CPU

[email protected] GHz

Windows XP

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I'm thinking that with the 4.2/4.3 GHZ clock speed this AMD FX-4170 Zambezi might be a decent Mastercam chip:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106009

 

Any thoughts?

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Maybe not. Found a recent benchmark with single-thread performance numbers:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/14

 

Looks like the i7 2600K tops the list, though the 2700 wasn't included.

[jeff]

Looks like the i7 2600K tops the list, though the 2700 wasn't included.

 

Keep in mind that's the stock speeds for the 2600k, it is SUPER EASY to overclock this chip it's crazy, and it's made for it, if you're not going to overclock then just get the 2600 (not the K version).

can easily overclock to 4.4ghz and more and still use air cooling.