Dream Computer

[ToolMan184]

How would this one be for MCAM? Any changes you would make?

 

Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5472 (3.00GHz,2X6M L2,1600)

Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Professional, SP2 with Media

Memory 2GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 800MHz, ECC (2 DIMMS)

Graphic Cards nVidia Quadro FX3500, Dual Monitor DVI Capable

Boot Hard Drive 146GB SAS Hard Drive, 1 inch (15,000 rpm)

[Colin Gilchrist]

Looks good for Mcam, I would go for a 64 bit processor and operating system though. This will allow you to expand your RAM in the future.

[ToolMan184]

Thanks Colin, After I posted it I wondered about that. I may check on a 64 bit system. No problems with MCAM and a 64 bit system? Would it be worth the extra for the SAS 15K hard drive?

[Colin Gilchrist]

Toolman,

 

It's hard to say about the hard drive. How soon are you going to order and how big a budget concern is it? I would seriously think about a slower hard drive for long term data storage, and a solid state hard drive if you need to do some serious number crunching. What kind of work do you do? If you are generating 45 minute long mold roughing and finishing programs, a 16 GB solid state hard drive would boost your data through put considerably.

 

Those drives are relativly new and can be quite expensive though.

 

Mastercam should have no problem on an XP 64 bit machine as of X2 MR2.

 

Just be sure you get a 64 bit chip and a 64 bit copy of windows XP. The XP64 can address orders of magnitude more RAM, 16 TERABYTES.

 

This means you can put in 8-16 GB of RAM and have one kick butt system.

[ToolMan184]

Colin,

 

I am ordering one in the next couple weeks. Since the Boss (Wife) has given me the OK to get one. I need to stay around $4K so I dont get killed. I could go with a 10K hard drive. As of now I dont have huge files. I am just thinking about the future. I want a computer that will last for at least 3 years.

 

Thanks for the info.

[bogusmill]

Any new PC is 64 bit capable, it comes down to drivers for printers and other things attached to your PC. I used Win XP 64 for awhile and noticed no problem or benifit to Mastercam, just the occaisonal driver problem. Catia has a 64 bit version and it worked better for me.

 

A 15K drive is a high end server drive, it's built tougher than desktop drives so it should last a long time. It will load Windows, MC and anything else on it fast but a save or write operation won't be any faster unless it's bigger than the drives cache which is either 16Mb or 32Mb so your only gain is when loading files or programs.

[ToolMan184]

Here is the one I have specd. Should be a nice upgradable system.

 

Dell Precision Workstation T7400 (With Memory Rise Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5472 (3.00GHz,2X6M L2,1600)

Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Professional, x64 Edition SP2, with Media

Memory 4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 800MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS)

Keyboard USB Entry Quietkey, No Hot Keys

Monitors Free 19 inch E198FPW Flat Panel

Also have a 24" Wide Screen to go with it.

Graphic Cards nVidia Quadro FX3500, Dual Monitor DVI Capable

Boot Hard Drive 146GB SAS Hard Drive, 1 inch (15,000 rpm)

Hard Drive Configuration C14 All SAS drives, Non-RAID, 1 drive total configuration

Floppy Drive and Media Card Reader Options 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive

Mouse New Dell USB Optical Mouse with scroll, All Black Design

DVD, and Read-Write Devices 16XDVD AND 16XDVD+/-RW, w/ Cyberlink PowerDVD™ and Roxio Creator™

Speakers Internal Chassis Speaker,Dell

Resource DVD Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers

Services 3 Year ProSupport for End Users and 3 Year NBD On-site Service

 

Now if I can talk the boss into the $400 I went over budget.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Now that is going to be a nice machine...

[ToolMan184]

It should last me at least 3 years. At least thats what the boss says.

[crazy^millman]

quote:

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PROCESSOR Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5482 (3.20GHz,2X6M L2,1600)

2ND PROCESSOR Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5482 (3.20GHz,2X6M L2,1600)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Professional, SP2 with Media

VIDEO CARD 1.5GB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 5600, Dual Monitor DVI Capable

2ND VIDEO CARD 1.5GB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 5600, Dual Monitor DVI Capable

MEMORY 8GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 800MHz, ECC (4 DIMMS)

OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD-ROM with Cyberlink Power DVD™

RAID CONFIGURATION C3 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 3 drive total configuration edit

HARD DRIVE 160GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™

2ND HARD DRIVE 160GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™

3RD HARD DRIVE 160GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™

MONITOR Dell 22 inch E228FP Widescreen Flat Panel, Analog

2ND MONITOR Dell 22 inch E228FP Widescreen Flat Panel, Analog

3RD MONITOR Dell 22 inch E228FP Widescreen Flat Panel, Analog

4TH MONITOR Dell 22 inch E228FP Widescreen Flat Panel, Analog

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION

Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers

My Accessories

SOUND

Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic(D),Dolby® Digital 5.1,WXP

DESIGN TOOLS

3DConnexion SpacePilot Intelligent Motion Controller

KEYBOARD

Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse

MOUSE

Mouse included in Dell Wireless Bluetooth keyboard/mouse Package

FLOPPY & MEDIA READER

Floppy Drive AND Dell 19 in 1 USB Media Card Reader

SPEAKERS

Logitech Z-4 Speaker System

My Software

PRODUCTIVITY

Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional and Adobe Acrobat 8 STD

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007

My Services & Warranties

WARRANTY & SERVICE

4 Year ProSupport for End Users and 4 Year 4HR 7x24 Onsite Service

ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE SERVICE

4 Year CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection

ON-SITE SYSTEM SETUP

No Onsite System Setup

ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM

Labels Genuine Windows® XP Sticker

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My dream one in a 32 bit system.

[ToolMan184]

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My dream one in a 32 bit system.

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Why get 8 GB of memory then?

[Colin Gilchrist]

good question...

[crazy^millman]

Just for the heck of it.

[WWFCAM]

My mcam reseller sent me a chook that allow you to assign each session of mcam to a specific core

works great, reduces load on each core

 

the chook is called CPU.DLL

 

ask you reseller for it

 

jm2c

[Guest]

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My mcam reseller sent me a chook that allow you to assign each session of mcam to a specific core

works great, reduces load on each core

 

the chook is called CPU.DLL

 

ask you reseller for it

 

jm2c

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X+ has the ability to do this for you as well

[ToolMan184]

Can the CPU.DLL be put on the FTP. It would be must faster than waiting on a reseller.

[bogusmill]

Now here is my idea of a dream computer. Intel Skulltrail.

 

2 Intel Xeon quad core CPU's

8 Gb of RAM

2 Nvidia cards in SLI or

2 ATI cards in Crossfire

8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater Audio subsystem

Four primary PCI Express 1.1 x16 (electrical x16) busses

 

My homebuilt PC runs the MCX2 benchmark in 5min. 6sec. and scores over 10,000 in the 3D Mk6 benchmark. Skulltrail has a 3D Mk6 score of 17,000.

 

Here's a link to it.

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticl...286&articID=685