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Last one. This is a spectacular machine. It is only a 35% discount. Not quite the 40% they usually give, but that is likely due to the quality of the components in this build.
256 GB of RAM (@ 2933 MHz DDR4, and it is even the ECC, not that 'non-ECC' cheap stuff...)
Precision T7920
Original: $11,082.00 Outlet price: $7,236.00
1 in stock
Certified Refurbished
Windows 64 Bit
Thunderbolt 3 PCIe card - 2 Type C Ports, 1 DP in
Dell KB216 Wired Black Keyboard
Optical 2-Button Mouse
Tower Chassis CL
Adapter 6+2 connector to 2x 6+2 connectors RTX chassis
Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad PCIe SSD x16 card
Thermal Heatsink, Single Processor Air Heatpipe
Original Price$11,082.00
Total Savings$3,846.00
Standard ShippingFREE
Outlet Price$7,236.00
Tech Specs
Intel Xeon Gold 6230 Processor (20 Core, Up to 3.90Ghz, 27.5MB Cache, 125W)
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (4 Cores Plus)
1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Class 40 Solid State Drive
2TB 3.5inch SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
256GB (4X64GB) 2933MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC
Nvidia Quadro RTX5000 16GB, 4DP
Dell Outlet Precision T7920
I think this one, is easily the best "bang for the Mastercam buck", of any of the systems I've posted about. 256 GB of RAM. Nvidia Quadro RTX5000, with 16GB of Video Memory, what?!?!
I'd be very curious to see how that AMD Ryzen Threadripper chip performs "in the real world".
My hunch is that Intel will eat the AMD's lunch, for Mastercam Performance.
While having "128 Mb" of Cache sounds huge, that is the L3 or "spillover" Cache. L1 and L2 Cache are the primary and secondary blocks of CPU memory.
The reality is that this particular AMD chip is optimized for programs that run many simultaneous multi-threaded applications. I don't believe that Mastercam makes use of Multi-Threading in the same way that other programs are designed to make use of the Multi-threading.
What do I mean by that?
Well, a Stock Model for example, might be setup to process as a "separate thread". But, I don't believe that the Stock Model Calculations themselves, are multi-threaded. In other words, the Stock Model is still calculated by a single process thread, once it is allowed to start calculating (could be dependent on other "input", like a previous toolpath). The 'Stock Model Thread' is not hyper-threaded, so it isn't like that Stock Model Calculation is being spread across your 24 Cores/48 Threads. Technically, you could generate up to 48 individual Toolpaths at at time, but you are still limited by several factors:
There is a 'databus' between the Hard Drive (SATA or SSD), and the Chip (processor), which is basically 50 times slower at data transfer, versus the clock cycle of the chip.
The main "throttle" in processing data is not the size/speed of the chip. It is the size/speed (flow rate) of the 'pipes' that handle the Data I/O between RAM, CPU, and Storage Memory.
AMD has historically had much more latency in data transfer between L1/L2/L3 Cache, versus Intel.
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