Benchmark

[Ralph@Faustson]

When you regen the tool path mastercam creates copies of the solids and regen files that may be reused if it can. I've found that that can affect the regen times in a positive manner. The temp file location can be found by checking your files; temp location in your configuration.

[Reverend Turk]

Got rid of the temp files and re ran

 

Benchtest #3- 1' 03"

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Mine slowed a bit also. .281 seconds

 

It went from 18.625 all the way up to 18.906

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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Mine slowed a bit also. .281 seconds

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See it wasn't my mac's!

[ostie01]

Just Installed X4 and time with X3 was about 5 minutes and now it is 1 min. 20 sec

 

Not bad for a $600.00 computer

 

Jeff

[shazam/TPP]

murray and evil, what did you do with all that extra time while your computers were computing?

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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murray and evil, what did you do with all that extra time while your computers were computing?

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More computing!

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And post on the forum.

[tommi nylund]

With Mastercam X3

 

8min 30sec (0.0001")

2min 02sec (0.001")

 

Apple MacBook 13.3"

Intel Core2 2.0Ghz

OSX 10.6.1 Snow Leopard / Boot Camped XP Home

[The_Evil_Machinist]

Welcome to the forum tommi! And It's nice to see another mac here

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to the macs!

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Oh, and put a apple in your sig! (shift+control+k)

[tommi nylund]

Thanks!

 

I get every day more and more impressed how much torque these computers have. Even with this smallest, cheapest, 2 years old (never formatted) MacBook regenerated that benchmark file within a reasonable time...

 

Have to perform same test with my iMac too.

 

I bet that your Mac Pro is quite a beast for Mastercamming! (I´m just dreaming of that Mac)

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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(I´m just dreaming of that Mac)

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Correction. Mac's. It's an Xgrid cluster super computer All the computers in my siggy act as one entity over my cluster network. If all my mac's are pegged at 100% power, I can reach theoretically 55.98GHz total processing power.

[tommi nylund]

Wow! I´m impressed!

 

What kind of parts are you programming with that super-Mac & Mcam?

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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What kind of parts are you programming with that super-Mac & Mcam?

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Injection mold inserts. I'm the only one in my shop so I have to hustle to make a profit. Also I dont use bootcamp on my mac's.

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If you have any questions about mac's, just email me.

[Chris Rizzo]

I'm happy to take suggestions (and direct links to newegg items ) for building a new pc. Somewhat budget minded, don't have time to mess around with oc'ing and tweaking. Gotta work, be solid, and not break my bank.

 

Probably the i5 or i7, over the older q96xx ?

 

How bout this for starters?

 

or this ?

[The_Evil_Machinist]

get the i7 920 or the 950 or 870 if ya can afford it. The i5 only has 4 hyperthreading dies. The i7 has 8.

[Chris Rizzo]

Not too bad in price, around 289 or so for the 920.

 

I am totally behind with my knowledge of current graphics cards. Moderate priced options there?

[SydwazShawn]

If building a new computer, what is the general consensus on 32 bit compared to 64 bit? Also is anyone running windows 7? I just got the go ahead today to get a new computer, so I want to make sure I do it correctly.

 

Thx, Shawn..

[The_Evil_Machinist]

64 bit and windows 7 pro. Thats what I run on my mac in virtual machine. Stable and fast.

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32 bit and Win XP. Stable and FASTER

[The_Evil_Machinist]

The question is, what other programs do you run? Because solidworks is giving up xp support after 2010. Other software company's are going to start moving over to newer os's.

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what other programs do you run?

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Solid Edge, Esprit and MCAM. We are gonna update to Win 7, just not right now. Prolly at the beginning of next year

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Choose a CPU with lots of cache (mine has 12MB), and faster seems to be better than more cores at this point unless you're planning on regenerating multiple large toolpaths simultaneously. Of course fast with lots of cores is best. A fast HDD like a Velociraptor 10,000RPM drive or SSD will speed things up a bit, and 8GB RAM is recommended. Don't skimp on the motherboard; the latest chipsets will move the data around faster.

[SydwazShawn]

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The question is, what other programs do you run? Because solidworks is giving up xp support after 2010. Other software company's are going to start moving over to newer os's.

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Well @ some point we will be running Solidworks, Mcam and Icam.

 

 

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Choose a CPU with lots of cache (mine has 12MB), and faster seems to be better than more cores at this point unless you're planning on regenerating multiple large toolpaths simultaneously. Of course fast with lots of cores is best. A fast HDD like a Velociraptor 10,000RPM drive or SSD will speed things up a bit, and 8GB RAM is recommended. Don't skimp on the motherboard; the latest chipsets will move the data around faster.

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Well the main reason for a new computer is not actually to run multiple toolpaths simultaneously. The computers we have now do the benchmark @ 9.5min. These computers struggle doing the high speed toolpathes, and take to long with surface toolpathes.

 

We will be getting Verification software for our new 5axis Makino. As it stands now we can hardly use the Mach Sim because it bogs are computers way down.

 

I don’t really know how to build a computer nor do I have the time to build one. I am thinking a Dell might be a better option for us. The problem is they are really expensive like Murraymolds. Then again for that type of benchmark its really not that bad.

[Chris Rizzo]

Newegg has some pretty slick pre-built units without a lot of bells and whistles.

 

New Egg HotRod

 

32 bit only can utilize 4gb of ram, no matter how many sticks are in there. I've also been reading a bit that Windows 7 has better capabilities of utilizing the more sophisticated mutli-processor units.