Mach 2 on old machine = great machine

[foamcutter]

I have an old home built small router that I had been running on some other DOS software, well last night I decided to see how it would run on Mach2. Plus I would get some good practice with Mach 2 for when I get my new bigger router done. WOW that old machine has never run so good. I think I'm going to keep it around now and use it for small stuff. I took me a whopping 15 minutes to get Mach 2 configured and the steppers tuned and had it running. Nice software!! Ron

[carlnpa]

How old, ie computer specs? I'll be trying it shortly on an older HP P3 500mHz unit and am a little worried about it. Would also like to know if it will run on P2 400mHz unit. Thinking about it for a minute, I would really like to see a list/survey of machines that will run Mach 1/2/3.

[ger21]

Current versions of Mach2 supposedly have a lower limit of around 500Mhz. If you need a faster pulse train than 25Khz, you'll probably need at least 1 Ghz or faster. I've heard that Mach2 V4 would run on 300Mhz PC's.

[strat]

i'm using an old amd 300 with no prob for control as far as the conversions though it doesn't seem to like it

[DieGuy]

You know it is great to use that old iron. But with the price of a discount online shop like newegg.com, it is hardly worth the extra effort to keep the old stuff going. I picked up a 1.8 Ghz Duron and a Mother board from Fry's Electronics for $79 bucks, Some cheap memory and your in business with the old HD, CD and floppy.

I probably have 6 or 8 PIII 750/100's that would run at 133, in effect be a 1 gHz PIII I would be willing to dump for cheap. Ebay or pricewatch.com has Socket 370 MB's cheap as chips.

[crazyman]

Anyone have issues running Mach3 with AMD processors?
Specifically the Sempron and Athlon64 based machines?

[Chris D]

Originally Posted by crazyman Anyone have issues running Mach3 with AMD processors? Specifically the Sempron and Athlon64 based machines?

I am running on two different PCs with Semprons - been fine here.