Custom Mastercam PC Build

[Jayson Kramer]

I of course have severs and the main runs Raid 1 then I also do a back up of this with a 4 TB NAS running the same way that backs up the important data on its own. then I have another drive to keep off site for important data.

My computers I run multi drives no raid. Desk top has a another NAS drive used to back it up and for my laptop.

 

I have in the past run Raid Scsi 5 for mastercam years ago. was pretty fast. Including pictures for fun.

 

Kevin , the case I have is similar but not the green like the board I have.including inside picture when I had the other video cards in it. very clean.Lots of room for sure.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Really I have not run into this in a long time running 32 gigs on both my programming boxs listed below.

 

At the moment I read your post:

 

 

 

 

I'm doing die cast chill blocks, which are basically a mold block with a bunch of ribs. Some have a fair size to them, and I work them down with high feed cutters of various sizes before finishing. It seems to be an iterative build up of complexity for the stock model; it's only after two or three different sizes of high feed cutter that it starts to bog down. I'd run them at a looser tolerance but I'm only leaving about .003" for the finisher so I don't want to go too loose.

[Rotary Ninja]

LOL Matt. I do some complex stuff, but nothing that is that big and takes that much memory. Holy cow! My 16 GB never gets close to being "not enough".

[Rotary Ninja]

NAS, network attached storage. I moved away from a home server and have never looked back, It is a hassle to maintain another PC, just to store stuff, Build myself a NAS and now have everything backed up weekly, If your data is sensitive you can back it on a cloud service from your NAS.

 

I wanted to build one of these awhile back but opted for a simple network hard drive from Seagate to store my movies on. Can you share your NAS setup?

[Jayson Kramer]

Matt, large mold block I can see that. I do not due that much mold programming anymore. you made think about the blow mold I did last year. it ate up my ram too.

I used to be a full time mold maker. I started as Wax investment then Plastic injection to roto mold blow mold Die cast.Now I do everything. lol

 

Kevin, yes you can share most home NAS systems.

[Rotary Ninja]

Jay. I was asking if Ray could show me what components he used to build his NAS setup. It's funny, re-reading it I see it the same way you did LOL.

[mkd]

Can you share your NAS setup?

no he cant, cause Nas' are no good for remote connection and such

but if so inclined i could share my WHS

[Jayson Kramer]

Mine has a FTP option to share so I can but sense this my back up of my company files NO!!!!!

[Jayson Kramer]

Kevin I bought min with the 4 TB in it ready to go. if you look at my first picture on the shelf above the flip out monitor you will see the little black solid box. that is the NAS.

[Jayson Kramer]

So what is your guys thought of going from the I7-3820 to the 3920 would you guys think there would be a big enough gain?

I am going crazy trying to decide.

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

I will but the 9320, but I am a sucker for performance. I priced it at new egg for around $550.

[Jayson Kramer]

But I am wondering how much am I really going to notice sense I all ready have 3820. I hear what you are saying but is really work buying then one at another $550. or wait I have to see what is coming for the 2011 chipset or do I jump to the 3960X at $1000.00

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

I would wait. I thought you were trying to decide to which one to buy. One of us could benchmark with you maybe? I think Gcode has one.

[Jayson Kramer]

Ya I have one all ready bought at the end of 2012 it is in my sig. that is true Gcode has one.

[Rotary Ninja]

Jay, just swap the Quadro 4000 into the Dell and see if there is a difference all around.

 

Edit: Oops. I see it's a laptop. I don't think I would bother trying the swap then. Unless you have a big shoe horn

[mkd]

i would remember the sacrifice of forking over double the money for the latest and greatest far longer than the memory of marginally better performance.

most software cant utilize the hardware fully yet anyways.

[gcode]

I would wait. I thought you were trying to decide to which one to buy. One of us could benchmark with you maybe? I think Gcode has one.

 

I think they put an I7-3770K in my new box. With 32 meg of ram, dual Intel SSD's running raid1 and a Quadro 4000,it's plenty quick

 

He's a good website for comparing processors

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html

[Jayson Kramer]

Now looking at the 3970X 3.5 extrem. I know I am crazy.

[Rotary Ninja]

i would remember the sacrifice of forking over double the money for the latest and greatest far longer than the memory of marginally better performance.

most software cant utilize the hardware fully yet anyways.

 

+1. I never build a PC with the highest performing hardware in the lineup. I spend my money on the Motherboard and I always try to get good RAM, but I only buy a little more than I need (which is cheap). I have a case that I can upgrade in for years, and a PSU that will power my house if need be. I build the rest so that I can upgrade to these higher end components when the prices come down. Doing that let's me have a PC that performs very well at current software releases and ensures that in the future I can upgrade to stay up with everything. Right now Jay, I don't think is the time for that upgrade for you.

[Rotary Ninja]

Jay, if you upgrade, what are you going to do with your 3820?

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

Now looking at the 3970X 3.5 extrem. I know I am crazy.

 

Now why did you have to go and show me that?

[Rotary Ninja]

Haha. That CPU is in my wishlist on Newegg. You guys go right ahead and buy it. It will bring down the price of the 3820 and 3930

[Jayson Kramer]

Jay, if you upgrade, what are you going to do with your 3820?

No really sure I would have to buy all new gear to use it. I guess throw it away... or just throw it with all the P-4 processors I have in a box.

As I just sold to more old Dual core box's I had.

[Jayson Kramer]

Come on Jermey we can both buy one now. are you ready buddy?

[Thoob]

At the moment I read your post:

 

 

 

 

I'm doing die cast chill blocks, which are basically a mold block with a bunch of ribs. Some have a fair size to them, and I work them down with high feed cutters of various sizes before finishing. It seems to be an iterative build up of complexity for the stock model; it's only after two or three different sizes of high feed cutter that it starts to bog down. I'd run them at a looser tolerance but I'm only leaving about .003" for the finisher so I don't want to go too loose.

 

I gotta ask, are you using a ramdrive? If you are, you can add that size to your memory usage. Example if you have a 10GB ram drive and Mcam is using 5GB, your task manager will show 15GB being used. That is crazy to be using that much memory, lol. I'm the same as Ninja, I never see that kind of memory use.