I absolutely despise computer manufacturers. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. They all suck. The only reason I sing praises for Dell Precisions, is because they have their own entire support department at dell (which doesn't suck), and I've owned 2 of them now for work and they've both been ABSOLUTE powerhouses at doing anything really. Especially laser-tracker work. They're great. Never had an MSI, as I LOVE asus laptops, but I'm not much of a laptop guy anyways, so I don't pay much attention to em

My rule of thumb is simple. For Laptops, Dell Precision or anything by Asus. Desktops, build your own, or go with a dell precision. Dell precisions for Scientific or Engineering related CAD work, (Stuff quadros are REALLY made for, otherwise you're wasting $$ on overpriced cards.) MasterCAM runs best on Gaming cards so build your own desktop, or get an Asus Gaming Laptop with extra ram. (CAD Work can use more RAM than gamers ever really have in their rigs.)

Sure, I enjoy building computers.

Oh jlw... Email me. You know my email address. I'll get you set up straight.

Well in the case of everyone here's experience, I think I'll go with a 980Ti for this build then, it's cheaper and maybe I'll get the chance to do a full watercooler build, since I know you can buy watercooler blocks for 980Ti's without having to engineer one up.

Yeah, I'm curious now. I was always under the impression that Regenerating dirty Ops was a joint CPU/GPU effort in MasterCAM. And that's where the CUDA cores of the Quadro series shined over CUDAless Gaming cards. If that's the case as you're saying, I may just put the 980Ti in then, I know for processing power they will be fine as I'm planning on putting a 6700k i7, doing a simple overclock and using a closed-loop water-cooler for it

I'm a little hesitant to use a gaming card for this PC. I know at home, with a similar build to what I'm getting them but an OC 980Ti instead of a Quatro M4000, I have a hard time regening the big molds they do

Well that's a bit disappointing then. Glad I asked, better than just assuming it would take advantage of what is becoming a more and more common occurrence.

So I'm helping someone out with a custom computer build that will be primarily used for 5 axis toolpathing and surfacing using masterCAM. I've always had good experiences with the Nvidia Quadro line, however after looking at their website and prices I realized I might be able to get better performance/dollar by running 2 in SLI. I know the Quadros are capable of handling SLI, but is MasterCAM Configured to utilize the SLI Function and work properly? Any advice on the subject is appreciated. (I've build multiple SLI Set-ups before for gaming etc, so I know how to run and ensure that part works. Just want to make sure that isn't a lost cause in this case because MasterCAM can't even utilize it.)

Omega Morgan is awesome! We hire them to do all the rigging for our Retrofits/moves/installs.

I don't get the jab, but I saw a Kuraki HMC last week that was getting true positions within a millionth. (On a rebuild Job.)

Ah I was in the right ballpark. Surface-Hybrid behaves much the same As Surface-Waterline does, but waterline has troubles with flat surfaces, hybrid kinda mixes Waterline and Raster In my opinion.

I think maybe he's looking at an older generation 970, the new ones are all GTX970's. I paid 330 for my GTX970 about 5 months ago

Hi, I grind Carbon every single day! You're going to want to clean your machine much more often than most people do. Unless you have pressurized way covers etc, you're going to want to clean/wipe em weekly if not twice a week. Make sure that you're vacuuming up as much as you can every run. Personally I don't run coolant (My machines aren't set up for it, and our holding fixtures would be destroyed by moisture.) but I've heard of people doing it, and it does keep the dust somewhat contained within the coolant. You will probably not be able to filter the dust well out of the coolant so plan on spending a lot more replacing coolant and just don't re-use it. If you don't run coolant, just keep a vacuum hood on the machine if possible. If not possible then just vacuum a lot in between operations. Don't blow it around, the stuff will get EVERYWHERE.

Ehhh. "Serious weapon"?! That thing is a "Gaming Card" The way that a barebones mustang is a "Race Car"