New System and Case

[CNCadmin]

When I do upgrade my machine, I'm going over to AMD, I have several friends running those chips and are finding the performance above Intel in many respects.

Originally Posted by JavaDog Oh, now you're just trying to start a fight. AMD is firmly entrenched with gamers, and they are rapidly gaining the server market. I deal with HPQ, IBM and others on a daily basis - and they see demand from customers for Opteron based server increasing very quickly. Not everyone is blind to the price v. performance that the AMDs offer, and in the server market - power usage and heat characteristics are also very important - and AMD has the win in that arena.

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[DieGuy]

Originally Posted by CNCadmin I do, and don't seam to have any problems using a 2.4 HT pent4 overclocked 10%.

hehe, I have a AMD XP2500 pre multiplier lock which is by default an 11X166 processor (1826 Mhz) running @ 12X220 (2640Mhz) water cooled. Been running like that for about 12 months. Ya gotta love AMD! That processor only cost me $65 from Newegg.com. Some of the old durons would fly like the wind, t-bred core and could have the cache enabled with a little surgery. They were in the $25-30 range. to Intel. I have a P4 3.0 HT and it gets hot enough to step back in speed if pushed just a little bit.

[sdjdave]

I've been running a computer business for over 9 years now and I sell far more AMD cpu's than Intel ones. The AMD's have much better performance without having to overclock than Intel's. AMD's are also cheaper, since Intel prices for the Dell's and HP's of this world and doesn't really want to deal with the smaller "white box" builders like me.

I run a MaxNC 15CL with a 233mhz laptop and it does a great job. My MaxNC runs under DOS, so not having to fight all the Windows overhead gains me gobs of performance. If you are stuck with something that only runs under Windows, you are going to have to boost your computer horsepower because of all the O/S overhead. The next machine I'm setting up will have a 500mhz single board computer that I picked up as surplus that's in a very small (10" X 9" X 5") box with 3 extra ISA slots. Computer hardware is so cheap I don't recommend doing everything on one machine. Have your screamer for your gaming and video stuff, have something reasonable, cheap and reliable for your CNC. Watch the Classifieds, I'll be posting a lot of SBC's, ISA backplanes and other hardware in the next week or so.

Dave