Benchmark

[The_Evil_Machinist]

1000 post get!

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posted 12-01-2007 09:08 AM

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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

 

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my original above which i think was X2

for X3 it's 9'54"

for X4 it's 5'10"

all on the same box

less then half of x2 and about half of x3!

love to get a new box and i mean computer

and get down to that 1-1/2 minute range.

[Thee Rickster ™]

My P.C. supplier brought me a system to try.

 

XP 64 BIt

CPU I7 2.93 GHZ

6 gig of ram

solid state hard drive

nvidia quardro FX3700

 

 

X3 ran at 3min 30 sec

my regular system was 4 min

 

they want like $3000+ for it

[Thee Rickster ™]

XP 64 BIt

CPU I7 2.93 GHZ

6 gig of ram

solid state hard drive

nvidia quardro FX3700

 

x4 = 1 MIN 38 SEC

[Hardmill]

1min 25 secs

New Pc THe boss just bought me

 

Intel Core i7 950(3.06GHz)

9GB DDR3

1TB 7200rpm SATA Hard Disk

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit (upgraded to Vista business)

 

Even though its a gaming PC it seems to be running fine

in MC, Solidworks and Esprit.

 

 

PEACE

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Rickster, I can put together a box for half that that will do the same speed.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Matt, I thought the same thing.

Many times I have priced components from Superior(our main supplier) to Cutting Edge computers

and even though I supposably get corporate pricing

CedgeC can beat them by 30 to 50%

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Yep. I got the parts for my last build from Newegg.com. IIRC, our IT supplier quoted about $3000 for a similar system. In addition to better pricing, if you select every component yourself you can optimize it for Mastercam. Cache is king!

[The_Evil_Machinist]

I've always had a problem ordering from newegg. The parts always arrive broken or DOA. With tiger direct I have never had that problem. Or Ill just go to my local apple store. Mastercam loves apple computers!

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+1 for cache being king!

[FP1]

I've had the exact opposite experience. I ordered from Tiger twice when I fist started buliding. Both times parts were broken or DOA. You could see the package had been openend previously. Been with Newegg for my last 20 orders and never got a broken or DOA part.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

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I've always had a problem ordering from newegg. The parts always arrive broken or DOA.

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Hmm, either I've been lucky or you've been unlucky; I've never had that problem, even with "recertified" parts like my 260 GTX that I got for $140 a couple months ago.

[Toby-Axis]

I have never had any trouble with New Egg, Tiger, or Dell.

 

Some times sh!t just happens.

[Toby-Axis]

BTW: Looks like you guys really need a New Benchmark Part. So which one of you is going to make it???

[The_Evil_Machinist]

I'll do it. What do you guys want it to have?

[[email protected]]

I'm working on a mold right now that just posted a 77Mb nc file

It might be a little much though

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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It might be a little much though

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lol it's never a little much!

[ostie01]

7 minutes 50 sec.

AMD Athlon 64 X 2 5200+ Dual 2.71 GHz

4 Gig Ram

ATI FireGL 3350

Windows XP SP3 and MasterCam X3

 

 

On my personal computer

4 minutes 15 sec.

Intel 2 Quad Core Q9550

3.55GHz with 4 Gig Ram

ATI FireGL V7200

Windows XP SP3 with MasterCam X3

[MotorCityMinion]

Ostie01, does that ATI FireGL V7200 give you any type of graphics issues in MC? How's your verify speed? Does it run circles around the 3350? Do you use any other cad/cam apps with it? Some in hear say not to use the ATI cards with MC, others seem to do fine with it. Your 2 pc's up there with the different hardware configurations using ATI cards and the same OS and versions of MC looks like it may provide further insight into this. I've always liked ATI for personal computing and need a card for CAD/CAM work, just can't shell out the big bucks right now for a new Quadro.

[ostie01]

To tell the truth, I'm not very happy with both of my ATI fireGL, V3350 and V7200.

 

I have many graphics issue, like when importing STL files produced with MC Art, I do that to use MC toolpaths instead of MC Art toolpath.

 

I have no issue with Solidworks 2008 or Catia V5R16.

 

But I'm looking to buy a Quadro FX5500 or FX5600.

 

I've read some post about MasterCam and ATI FireGL not really like each other.

 

Seen on this site:

http://www.cimquest-inc.com/graphic_card.html

 

Note on Video Cards

ATI cards - We do not recommend any ATI cards for Solidworks or Mastercam. ATI cards that are certified for use with Solidworks, primarily the FireGL V3100, have been troublesome with our customers.

 

So no more ATI FireGL for me.

Jeff

[Toby-Axis]

I don't know anyone who likes the ATI anymore. Nvidia is pretty much the standard these days.

[bbrown01]

2'4" - first pass

34" - second pass

 

Mastercam X4

 

Mac Pro Desktop

32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3 (Boot Camp)

Quad-core: 2.66GHz

Intel Xeon 3500 series processor

8MB of fully shared L3 cache per processor

3G of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM

1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory

 

System price $2,499.00 + Windows XP Pro

 

[bogusmill]

Actually it's a little better than that. Look at total time on the other side of the page.

[bbrown01]

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Actually it's a little better than that. Look at total time on the other side of the page.

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I saw that as well but wasn't sure how most people were measuring the time. I noticed when using a stop watch the time starts (when clicking the regen button) at the OMregenSlelectedOperations line in the event log.

 

Either way I'm pretty happy with the Mac Pro hardware so far. I priced a similarly equipped Dell (T5500) and it was more expensive. Plus I have all the Apple OSX capabilities as well. It's like getting two new computers at once.

[mkd]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...259469&CatId=28

 

betcha this supercomputer would crunch the data in less than zero seconds. you know; negative time.

 

Anyone have $10,000 I can borrow for the experiment?

[The_Evil_Machinist]

I tested the tesla and it didn't improve my times much. To fully take advantage of the tesla, multi threading would have to be rewritten to take advantage of cuda.

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ENHANCEMENT REQUEST:

Please set multithreading for toolpaths under .5 mb and throw all the rest at the gpu (using the cuda system).