How Powerful should a PC be to deal with Mastercam easily?

[Andy_Wallis]

How Powerful should a PC be to deal with mastercam? If I have two windows of mastercam open my pc becomes sluggish, and when four multi-thread operations are processing my computer practically freezes - HELP!!!!

 

Any help would be much appricated

 

Thanks Andy

[gcode]

what are you running now?

It's pretty clear you need a bigger machine.

The machine in my siggy was $2K at Dell refurb and can handle 3 or 4 session at a time with no problems

If you're not up for a new machine right now, try upgrading your ram.. the more the better

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Check out the benchmark thread.

[cobra95kev]

I think there is a limit with mastercam as to what even a good computer can do, I find once my mastercam file gets over about 150 megs it starts to slow down and become less stable. We have very good computers here but even with X6 supposedly being 64 bit now I find MCX6 still doesn't seem to take full advantage of all of the available hardware.

My 2 cents

Kevin C.

[Newbeeee™]

CACHE is king for mastercam from memory in the benchmark thread. Our cheap (value for money) machines perform really well - again look at the benchmark thread for the specs.

[Andy_Wallis]

Thanks guys, I will get back to you tomorrow with my computer model..... power etc....... In the mean time what should benchmark tread be set at? Or does it depend on your PC Spec????

[gcode]

http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=25855

 

Here is the benchmark thread ..

everybody runs the same file.. which is on the ftp ( or in the sample files on your install disc)

If you read through the whole thing you'll be amazed at the improvement

In 2007 a good time was under 10 minutes ... now a good time is under 1 minute

I have an $800 gaiming laptop that runs it in 1:30

This is due to improvements in both hardware and software ...but it lends credence

to my comment on your other thread .... your boss is leaving a ton on money on the

taable running old software/hardware..

[Andy_Wallis]

Awesome! I will try that and let you know results.

 

Thanks very much

[Jayson Kramer]

You did not tell us what kind of computer you are running. I can run allot of sesions on mine and not notice a slow down.

[Thoob]

You did not tell us what kind of computer you are running. I can run allot of sesions on mine and not notice a slow down.

Thanks guys, I will get back to you tomorrow with my computer model

[Andy_Wallis]

Sorry for late reply chaps, left my notes at work on Monday.

 

I have a Dell T5400

Intel ® Xeon® cpu

E5410 @ 2.33Ghz

3.2 RAM

Nvidia Quadro FX 5800

500Gig Hard drive (but this is empty as everything is setup over a network)

 

I performed the test provided by Serenity......

 

The time was 3'02''

 

Sorry again guys

[CJep]

Sorry again guys

 

No reason to be sorry,... the more complex the file are that you're working with the more processor speed & memory you're going to need to handle the information

 

You can spend money on the front end buying a high-end machine or,....spend money on the back-end dealing with the frustration of slow processing and or files crashing,.....

[gcode]

Thats a great video card but a slow proccessor..

You don't mention your OS but, I'm guessing you're running XP Pro..

you might want to concider upgrading to Win7x64.... then you can upgrade your ram as well ( to 8 or 12 gig)

X4 does not officially support Win7x64, but many people run it with no trouble.

I'm thinking your network must be pretty slow too.

Do you see any improvement if you run off your hard drive instead of the network?

[jeff]

Sorry for late reply chaps, left my notes at work on Monday.

 

I have a Dell T5400

Intel ® Xeon® cpu

E5410 @ 2.33Ghz

3.2 RAM

Nvidia Quadro FX 5800

500Gig Hard drive (but this is empty as everything is setup over a network)

Get the i7 2600k, it will blow away that Xeon.

Unless you're running dual Xeons, the 2600k will beat it.

Might want to get 8GB of RAM, it's so cheap nowadays.

[John@WMM]

Get the i7 2600k, it will blow away that Xeon.

Unless you're running dual Xeons, the 2600k will beat it.

Might want to get 8GB of RAM, it's so cheap nowadays.

 

My Dell XPS 8300 I7 3.4 GHZ with a Nvidia Quadro 600 did the benchmark in 43 seconds.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Grab yourself a SOlid State Drive as well. 128GB drives are fairly inexpensive these days. ROI depend on your use, could be weeks.

[jeff]

My Dell XPS 8300 I7 3.4 GHZ with a Nvidia Quadro 600 does the benchmark in 43 seconds.

I'm sure the next gen i7's are better, but the 2600 is a good price and it's a beast of a cpu

 

Oh and what James said, get a ssd, those are lightning fast, alot faster than my home RAID0 setup.

[John@WMM]

I'm sure the next gen i7's are better, but the 2600 is a good price and it's a beast of a cpu

 

Oh and what James said, get a ssd, those are lightning fast, alot faster than my home RAID0 setup.

 

Thats the one I have I7-2600 with 8GB Ram and 1T hard drive. It cost me $800 shipped right from Dell on one of those coupon deals (Im always looking for a deal) I added a Quadro 600 at $175 and ended up with a great pc for onder $1000

[Andy_Wallis]

Had a chat with the boss and I have to look in to get getting more RAM, thanks for all the advice chaps.