Benchmark

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

[Newbeeee™]

Thanks to the Dell V Dave Leloneck thread i got around to buying a couple of build yer own pc's for work.

Specs are:-

 

X4Mu3

Intel i7 950 4core 3ghz

8meg cache

10GB DDR3 1333mhx

GTX480 (cheapskate - thought I'd give it a go)

Windowze 7 64bit

 

1:19

 

The graphics card is only running at 50% 'automatic' speed, but when I run it faster it locks up

So I'll have a look into this as the time could possibly come down a bit?

 

Webby - When are you going to support the old forum ?????

[Newbeeee™]

Cranked up the graphics card as fast as she'll go, and got it to

1:16

 

That's probably 3x faster than the old 'puter, so she'll do for now

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

Interestingly enough my over 2 year old build is still holding its own against the new processors and mega-RAM.

 

53.453 sec.

 

ASUS Rampage Extreme MB, Intel Q9650 Processor, 2 gigs Patriot DDR3 RAM, Raptor HD, Gforce GTX 260 Graphics

WinXP Pro 32bit

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

...Intel Q9650 Processor...

 

It's no wonder... 12M Cache, 3.00 GHz

 

Cache helps the cause tremendously.

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

Also, I've got it running at 4ghz. It still idles in the 30s and when it's cranking it's temp range is in the 50s and low 60s. I've got a nice Arctic Cooling processor fan as well.

[Marshal]

ok, I'm probably missing something extremely simple, but where is this benchmark file for X5? I can't find it anywhere on my computer....

[gcode]

I don't think its on the X5 disk..

The file is HST-CORE-HORIZONTAL-RASTER.MCX

and I'm pretty sure you can find a copy on the FTP.

Its on the X2 disk as a sample file also

Set Tolerance to .0001 in each OP then regen.

[Guest]

It IS in the X5 sample files

HST-CORE-HORIZONTAL-RASTER.MCX-5

 

IN Win7

C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx5\mcx\mill\samples\inch\high speed

[Marshal]

I found it, thanks.

 

Looks like 1m 9.488s.

 

Desktop with 2.8GHz i7

12GB RAM at I have no idea what speed lol

Windows 7 64-bit

 

I'm going to go run it on our other machine as well...got a solid-state drive and the new sandy bridge processor in it, along with nothing else installed on it. Might be interesting

[Marshal]

And on the other machine:

 

47.643s

 

Core i5-2500 2.2GHz

4GB RAM

Windows 7 32-bit

 

The solid state drive in the second machine must make a pretty big difference, not to mention the sandy bridge processor. Although, neither machine appears to use much RAM to do any of it, and the processors don't even come close to maxing out

[Newbeeee™]

Are there settings to 'tune/alter/####up' (delete as applicable) for setting up windows 7?

Specifically setting of the processor to ensure mcam uses all cores/resource that it wants to?

[MotorCityMinion]

"It's no wonder... 12M Cache, 3.00 GHz"

 

I put a machine together for my son based on the Q9550, same 12mb cache, saw it in this thread, and that machine rocks. Those cpu's are getting harder to find retail and the prices still around $200. give or take a few.

 

 

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

newbee,

 

You need to open the Mukti-Therading manager and adjust for the number of threads your CPU supports... mine is 8.

 

HTH

[Newbeeee™]

James,

Nooooob question....is the number of threads the same as the number of cores?

And obviously they should match as there's no benefit for upping the number?

Thanks

[Marshal]

James,

Nooooob question....is the number of threads the same as the number of cores?

And obviously they should match as there's no benefit for upping the number?

Thanks

 

The number of threads is not necessarily the number of cores. In my case with an i7, I've got 4 cores, but there's a thing called "hyper threading" which doubles the threads the CPU can handle, so I've got 8 threads

 

Of course, in the case of this benchmark, I don't think the number of threads makes much difference. If you've got a quad-core system, it's already using 3 of the cores to do this, one for each operation.

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

I'm not sure we're talking about the same test file. I downloaded the HST-Core-Horizontal-Raster.mcx file from the SolidBox web site.

 

My system regenerated all the toolpaths in about 16 seconds. It finished so quick, I wasn't sure it was done.

 

When I did it a second time, It took 9 seconds.

 

Mike Mattera

 

Intel i7 970 (6Core)3.2Ghz / ASUS Rampage III Extreme X58 / 12 GB Ram

500GB SATA II / 1TB SATA III / ATI FirePro V7800 w/ 2GB (yes ATI, really)

Running X5 MU1 on Win7 Pro X64

[Newbeeee™]

Mike, I think you have to reset all the tolerances to .0001 by memory and then regen.

Read back throught a couple of pages and the 'instructions' are there.

[Thee Rickster ™]

The instructions are on the very 1st page, 1st post, the topic starter.

[Newbeeee™]

In our defence we're blokes who don't read manuals or instructions!

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

"In our defence we're blokes who don't read manuals or instructions!"

 

That's why I produce Video Training for Mastercam.

No one reads the manuals, including me

 

1:09 regeneration time @ .0001 tolerance.

 

10 seconds regen time with a forced regeneration (no changes and regen file in the folder).

 

I'm pretty happy with that. It's not overclocked or anything, just standard factory settings.

 

Mike Mattera

 

Magicmicro.com

Intel i7 970 (6Core)3.2Ghz / ASUS Rampage III Extreme X58 / 12 GB Ram

500GB SATA II / 1TB SATA III / ATI FirePro V7800 w/ 2GB (yes ATI, really)

Mastercam X5 MU1 on Win7 Pro X64

 

Windows Experience Index.

Processor, Memory and Graphics are all at 7.7

While my main system Hard Drive is at 5.9 (SATA II)

[Thee Rickster ™]

Hey Mike, you beat my time by 3 seconds...lol

 

We have the same chip and ram...

 

Rick

[Dave.L]

Guys,

 

What is the procedure for Mill Level 1 ?

[Guest]

There isn't one Dave, AFAIK

 

This has been all 3D stuff

[Dave.L]

OK. Thanks John. I can't benchmark the new BOXX's then.

 

Well, I will do the Solidworks Benchmark