Benchmark

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

bogusmill,

 

Is that the first time around or second?

[Roger Peterson]

I setup a 200mb ramdisk(using super speeds software) on my M70 and pointed mastercams temp files and regen files to the ramdisk. My regeneration time did not change. My hard drive light was still coming on. I only have 1gb of ram on my laptop so it is possible I used too much of my ram for a ramdisk. Anyone else tried this? I was hoping for some improvement but my measely 1gb of ram may make it something that just doesn't apply to my laptop. Are there other files that need to be mapped to the ramdisk to make this more effective?

 

 

Thoughts?

[bogusmill]

1st time. I just turned off Norton AV, loaded the sample file, changed the cut to .0001 and hit regen. Dell puts lots of crapware on thier machines so when we get them we format the HD and do a clean install which may be why other similar laptops are slower.

[Jay Kyle]

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8 min. 5 sec.

 

Dell M90 2.16

2 gig RAM 667 Mhz

Win XP Pro

Quadro FX2500M

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I would expect at least a 10% advantage wit the the 2.16 GHz cpu over my 2.0 GHZ CPU ( The CPU's are more like "1968 MHz" and rounded up to 2GHz.

 

So bottom line, as fast of CPU you can get, and at even better at least two of them on the same motherboard. This is how we spec hardware for any sort of CPU intensive but single threaded application.

 

Jay

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Same here just no Symantec to turn off. I am running MS "Onecare" which by the way is not such a system hog and seems to be doing the job. I just did a new install from formatted Drive right before I ran the bench mark. I think I'm going to revisit the test.

[Jay Kyle]

What I'd like to see is a dual Opteron system try this benchmark, this is what we load our math crunching servers with for best performance.

[iowajim62]

Roger,

see you only had mc temp files listed

from the old thread I found this. hth

 

quote:

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After I configured

ALL

temp files to the ramdisk (

windows system

and Mastercam)

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[Nachum]

Metric (Gilberto's tolerance)

 

5 minutes

Core 2 duo 2.13 6400

2 GB

Win2K

Quadro FX 1500

 

Changing affinity to CPU 1 results in the same 5 minutes

 

Nachum

[bogusmill]

quote:

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I would expect at least a 10% advantage wit the the 2.16 GHz cpu over my 2.0 GHZ CPU ( The CPU's are more like "1968 MHz" and rounded up to 2GHz.

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My 8 min. 5 sec vs. your 10 min. 2sec. is closer to 24%.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

quote:

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quote:

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I would expect at least a 10% advantage wit the the 2.16 GHz cpu over my 2.0 GHZ CPU ( The CPU's are more like "1968 MHz" and rounded up to 2GHz.

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My 8 min. 5 sec vs. your 10 min. 2sec. is closer to 24%.

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I was coming in at 10min 55sec with the 2.16 GHz machine just with the 1500fx card as opposed to the 2500fx.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Keith,

 

Turning off "display plane/intersections" should save you some time. Give it a try.

 

HTH,

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

thanks I'll give it a go and let you know.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

11 min 4 sec.

 

After setting ajustment.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Set affinity to 1 CPU

 

11min 5sec.

[Müřlıń®]

I have a Shuttle I put together.

 

Intel 3.0 Prescott

 

2 Gig PC3200

 

Quadro 500 AGP video 8X

 

Raptor 10k HDD...

 

 

Crunch time 11 min 58 seconds.....

 

Running Window XP Pro/IE7 with all the Eye candy turned ON....

 

NO AV installed on this puter at all, only Windows firewall....behind a hardware router also...

[connormac]

Bogusmill,

Our computers seem ahout the same and ran within 5 sec of each other. My computer came from HP buisness class and didn't have any addon software. I think your right about that stuff slowing the computer down.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

I ran a few more comparative test on my M90 and all come in at around 11 minutes.

[bogusmill]

One thing you could look at with task manager is how many processes are running. My M90 has 38 running with MC running and no file open. CPU usage here is 0% to 2%. My dad has a Dell 1710 which is similar to the M90 but he's running XP Media Center OS Dell loaded and he has 58 - 64 processes running after boot up and his single core CPU almost never goes below 10% usage.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Bogusmill,

 

I will have to check the actual amount of procsses running but really the only thing that is running of that is of any great size is sql network. I will take another look and let you know.

[Søren P]

12 min 50 sek

X-treme pentium 4 2.8 gh

2.87 gb RAM

Geforce PCX05300

[Trevor Bailey]

7:45

 

Dell XPS M1710 laptop

Core 2 Duo T7600 @2.33 GHz

4 g of RAM

7950 nVidia w/512 mb

XP Pro

 

had X2MR1, browser, email running along with all the other crap Dell has running in the background. just got the laptop, loaded X and went to testing.

 

i would have prefered an AMD processor.

[iowajim62]

quote:

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just got the laptop, loaded X and went to testing

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Trevor,

shouldn't it say,

 

just got the laptop, loaded BF2 and went to playing

[Trevor Bailey]

that was the next thing to test Jim...lol

[gcode]

I found a good deal at the Dell Outlet Store

Dell WS-690

2 dual core Xeon 2.66 ghz

4 gig of 533 Ram

2 Raptor 73 gig 10k hard drives

Quadro FX-3450 video card

a DVD burner

and WinXP Pro x64

$2089 + $109 for a 3 year warranty

Its a sratch and dent and one corner of the box

has a thumb sized dent. I figure that dent cost Dell about $3K

Right out of the box this machine ran the

benchmark file in 5 min 40 secs.

I can't wait to see how it runs SW2008 x64

My old machine gagged on SW2008 beta

[Zero]

wow, thats not a bad deal at all gcode.