just for pure reasons of stability? is their a performance difference for mastercam on either platform?

exactly what i was thinking, just wanted to confirm, in case for some reason the P3 did outperform the athlon for this particular application. always planned on using the dets, new one gave me +13 fps in Q3

on the mastercam workstation i'm soon to be building i have the choice of installing winNT 4 or win2k. do either of these offer more stability or better performance when running mastercam software? ------------------ -------------------------- http://niucgl.n3.net

actually i've pretty much decided that the system should have either a nvidia geforce2, or an ati radeon. anyone experienced with these cards have anything to offer on their performance?

A friend of mine wants me to make a new workstation for him at his business. The computer he currently has running Mastercam is a P3 550, with 512megs of ram. He says much of the work is pure number crunching, calculating x,y,z points which the machine will use to cut. I am not familiar with Mastercam, so I am posing this question to this forum - what hardware do you recommend? I'm mostly looking in terms of processor and video. From what I can tell so far, it appears to me that his needs for calculation would best be met by one of the Athlon Thunderbird processors. Their FPU seems much stronger than Intel's at this time, clock for clock. As far as video cards go, although designed for gaming I was considering a 32 MB Geforce2 based card. How is it's performance in Mastercam? How does it stack up against some other cards, i.e. Permedia 3 and Oxygen? Thank you for your help. -mike ------------------ -------------------------- http://niucgl.n3.net

i'm building a computer for a friend and stopping by here for suggestions. posting here cuz it told me to!! ------------------ -------------------------- http://niucgl.n3.net