Mastercam System requirments

[jeremy83]

Hey, after talking to the mastercam rep he advised me that I need to buy a $3000 dollar computer with 2gigs of ram, high end quattro video card E6750 processor (from dell) after going to the mastercam website I noticed the min system requirments (very low) and the Partnership with Dell! My question is what are most people running the newest versions of mastercam on (computer specs) thanks. Jeremy

[robinsoncr]

My HP Pavilion system runs all of my cad apps just fine, including MC Router X2. My system has a P4 2.8duo, 2gb ram, nVidia GeForce 7900GS with 512mb vid ram. The biggest files I've loaded are 52,000kb. No problem with those.

My system also has a 320gb removeable drive, 19"lcd screen, dvd-rw. Cost about $2500. You could probably build one yourself for less.

Chris

[BRIAN SIMP]

I use a very small pc to run my mastercam x and have no problems. It has 512 of ram and 64 shared to graphics. my processor is only 1000kbs. if your going to use it for heavy duty graphics and 3d programming ya might want to step up. but windows xp and a small pc will work just fine.

[kwallace]

This is what I just bought for my mastercam/solidworks

CPU: Intel E6550
Casing: CM Elite 331
PSU: SilverStone Strider ST50F 500w ATX w/ Active PFC PSU
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX560 128MB PCIe
Mobo: ASUS P5KPL
Memory: KINGSTON DDRII 667 2gig (2x1meg)
HD: Western Digital 250.0GB/7200/16MB/ SATAII
DVD: To suit (nothing specific, but must burn also)
Monitor: 19" SAMSUNG 931BW
Keyboard & mouse to suit

Using Windows XP, the whole thing cost me around 1,250USD (I'm in Malaysia where is is cheaper though)

This rig should eat it.

[timmydabull]

when we switched to X2 MR2 our computer could not handle the program.

we could have gotten away with a high end graphics card and more memory but our motherboard wouldnt work with the pci cards.

sooo we built our own unit 8 gig ram,AMD 3gig processor,2 500 gig hard drives and a Nvidia geoforce gtx8800 dual DVI graphics card. Asus motherboard.

we actually have windows VISTA operating system and are very happy with it. no glitches as of yet.

also switched to dual 40inch lcd monitors,the resolution is amazing and we can move all the toolbars to one monitor and use the other for the part file.

needless to say we are very happy although it was mighty expensive $8000.