Mill 8 on an Athlon processor?

[Dave Eno]

I'm getting ready to replace my Pentium 2/450 with something newer. Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) running Mastercam on an Athlon processor?

CNC SOftware -

If you are listening, do you support this processor?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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Dave E.

[Greg McKay]

Cnc is listening

 

We do not oficially support the Athlon

We have a 1000 in house that seems to run fine.

I have not heard of any problems specific to the Athlon.

Greg

Tech Support

[Jeremy]

No one that I have talked to have had problems with the Athlon. It is a x86 chip, with an instruction set that Intel also supports with their Pentium/pro/II/III line.

Athlons do not have SSE instructions (Intel-specific instruction set for 3d), but I don't think Mastercam uses SSE. It doesn't use 3DNow either, which is an AMD-specific instruction set.

FYI, AMD innovated and created the 3DNow instructions, and Intel countered later with SSE.

Perhaps Intel didn't have enough success with MMX to try the marketing trick again.