Mastercam X8 processing slow

[stevep]

Thanks for all of the input folks.......

 

We are about to replace the current workstations, but are struggling to pinpoint the final spec.

 

 

Which would be the best:

 

Intel Xeon E5-1620v3 3.5Ghz processor or An i7 Processor?........If i understand correctly the i7 would be more benefit due to the fast that it is a faster processor, and that while a Xeon has more cores, they would not all be utilized.

 

We are definitely going to pitch for an Nvidia Quadro graphics card, which will straight away help with our crashing issue. However budget wise we are thinking the K2200 over the K4200 as there is a £400 difference.

 

On occasion we are programming with 0.001" tolerances and taking 0.004" to 0.001" depths of cuts on fairly large files, do you think the K2200 would meet our requirements?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Cheers,

 

Ste

[crazy^millman]

Thanks for all of the input folks.......

 

We are about to replace the current workstations, but are struggling to pinpoint the final spec.

 

 

Which would be the best:

 

Intel Xeon E5-1620v3 3.5Ghz processor or An i7 Processor?........If i understand correctly the i7 would be more benefit due to the fast that it is a faster processor, and that while a Xeon has more cores, they would not all be utilized.

 

We are definitely going to pitch for an Nvidia Quadro graphics card, which will straight away help with our crashing issue. However budget wise we are thinking the K2200 over the K4200 as there is a £400 difference.

 

On occasion we are programming with 0.001" tolerances and taking 0.004" to 0.001" depths of cuts on fairly large files, do you think the K2200 would meet our requirements?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Cheers,

 

Ste

 

I-7 if only doing Mastercam programming on this rig. K4200 all the way the extra almost $600 would be money well spent IMHO.

[stevep]

Thanks Ron!

[jt300zx]

Hi I'm JT and Systems Administrator for my company.  So please excuse the lack of terminology.

 

I built a pc specifically for a programmer to test before we make 12 pc investment.  Here are the basics:

i7 5960x

64gig Ram

Nvidea K5200 8gig

Mastercam X6-9

 

We thought this thing would be a burner but preforms no better than three year old pcs with 12 gig ram and Nvidea 4000 when creating tool paths.  Now, the user's profile and setting are to a network drive.  Even when I have the user to first save to local drive, nothing.  Is there anything that can be done?  I built this monster pc and it's not preforming.