Before Ryzen 7xxx came out I would say clock speeds. But now I think that's a moot point. Intel does have more robust support for DDR5 RAM right now, so if you're wanting to get on the DDR5 train it's probably still the best choice for now. If you're running DDR4, or if you're willing to wait a while for Ryzen to catch up on DDR5 support then sure that would be a good route to go.

1 hour ago, crazy^millman said:

I will be heading into this direction soon. The current Laptop is over 3-1/2 years old. It has paid for itself and time to invest into the next one. Looking at another $8k to get the best I can get so I am not waiting needlessly on the computer to do what I need. Dell doesn't offer the i9-13900HK yet, but seeing the i9-13908HX is coming out this quarter with 5.6mhz abilities would be nice to have. Maybe by the end of the year it be available.  

Here is what I would consider if I were buy 2-23-22. Dell Price $8,028.27 then I would add 4 new 2tb Samsung 990

Intel® Core™ i9-13980HX Processor

Samsung 990 Pro M2 drive

Here is a system from MSI with that Processor already built, but comes with the RTX card. Anyone willing to buy me to test I will be glad to let you know how it performs.

Titan GT77HX 13VI-042US 17.3" UHD Gaming Laptop

 

The Gigabyte Aorus 17X AZF is available with a i9-13980HX, RTX 4090, and plenty of RAM. If you're only running Mastercam then I wouldn't be too worried about running a gaming video card, they seem to run fine and no worse than the nicest pro cards. If you're running Solidworks too then maybe the A5500 makes more sense. I've been running a 3080Ti for a while now and I've not had any issues. Of course, you have to be ok with the very gamer aesthetic, but I don't mind it myself. It's like half the price of the Dell, so that might be worth something to you.

If you go with the specs above see if you can get that RAM in a 64x2 configuration instead. Dual channel RAM has a significant performance impact compared to single channel.

17 minutes ago, JB7280 said:

Just got a new laptop, and the benchmark time isn't what I was expecting.  Anyone have an idea where I could be lagging?

I'm getting a time of 3.98 minutes.  I feel like this should do better.  Am I expecting too much?

Windows 11

Intel® Core™ i9 12950HX 12th Generation

NVIDIA RTX A5500 (16 GB GDDR6 dedicated)

64 GB DDR5

1TB SSD

 

Make sure to open the Options in the Multi-Threading Manager (! button) and set the threads and default priority. For your system you could max out threads at 24 and priority should probably be set to High.

New computer day! And boy howdy did this make a difference.

Intel i9-12900kf processor

Arctic Freezer ii 240 AIO cooler

Nvidia RTX 3080ti graphics card (edit, Gigabyte OC edition)

32gb DDR5 Ram @ 6000mhz

Asus Z690-P MOBO

1000 watt EVGA power supply

Meshify 2 case

All storage is m.2 NVME 

2 minute time. This is a new dawn for Mastercam.

And yes, I am a gamer and this is also my gaming/streaming build

On 11/8/2020 at 10:09 AM, Ants331 said:

I have 2021 using Codemeter, no issues until Saturday. Friday I did get an update and installed it and it was still working until Saturday morning. as soon as I turned on the computer Saturday windows keep asking if I give permission to codemeter,  this was before I tried opening MasterCam.  when I  try to open mastercam the same permission window keeps coming up until it finally says I have no active license. When trying to activate the license I get the "Codemeter License server not found, Error 101".  

Codemeter has no license, no CmContainer and just says "Starting Codemeter, Please wait"

Sounds like Codemeter got a bit bunged up after the update, you should call your reseller and have them check it out. They will probably have you uninstall your license, reinstall Codemeter, then reinstall your license.

On 11/8/2020 at 2:15 PM, Dan@home said:

We recently updated to a nethasp or whatever they call it. I still had older versions of MC installed on my computer. Come to find out I was using the older versions for outputting NC code, Cimco edit is my preference. I was getting simullar alarms. The new Hasp would only work with newer versions of mc so my 2020 was linked to 2017 on my computer and the nethasp wouldn't work with the old. Had to uninstall all older versions and rename or delete the folders and reinstall or do a repair to 2020. Worked after that. 

Sounds like a Network software license. Software licenses are only supported in versions 2019 and newer. Hopefully your reseller actually told you or someone above you about that before the changeover.

2018 MacBook Pro running Bootcamp. i9-8950HK, 32Gb RAM, Radeon Pro 560X

MC2022 Update 1 (24.0.19884.0)

Windows 10 Pro 1909 (18363.1556). Updating Windows on Bootcamp gets sketchy with graphics card drivers, so I try to keep it locked down.

With all background processes turned off I get 3:35. With my normal other stuff running, just a couple seconds shy of 4 minutes.

I think these laptops are fantastic, but they do have a heat problem. It regularly hits 100C and has to throttle to keep cool. I keep it on a riser with fans actively blowing on the body to help, but still gets quite hot.

We have a couple other MacBook Pros to test here at work, I'll post about those when I get results and a hardware spec sheet.

Fantastic thank you Roger! Worked perfectly

3 minutes ago, Roger said:

Maybe, Same down arrow, restore default attributes??

Nope that was my first idea actually, didn't change anything.

So I have no idea how it got changed, but some of the buttons on Mastercam have suddenly changed size. Whats really weird is that it's just the buttons in manager windows, but not in the main ribbon. The text that comes up in the prompt windows is also really tiny. I can change the font size from the manager options (down arrow next to the pin) but this doesn't change the size of the buttons in the manager windows. Anybody know how to get it changed back?