On 18/09/10 07:49, Don Stanley wrote: > Hi All; > I will have to plead the Shultz Defense. > > The Mill processors I am converting to EMC2 are > Athlon 64 processor 3700+ or better with the following > slots: > PCI > PCI-EX1 > PCI-EX16 > MGP (Mach speed graphics port). > I am currently using left over dual monitor video cards > which worked fine for the old CNC package. Apparently > EMC2 wants better. > > Any suggestions for a Graphics Card that will make EMC2 > and these systems happy to do the job, and get my latency > test out of the ruts. > > Moving the Latency Display during the test looks like this. > Max Intrvl(ns) Max Jitr(ns) Lst Intrvl(ns) > Servo Thread (1.0ms) 1692524 214782 996XXX > Base Thread (25us) 82717 47208 24XXX > > Thanks again for your many helps > Don > If they are dual core machines I'd test out the 10.04 release on them with a nvidia card and the binary driver. not guatanteed to work, but I've had decent success with it on Intel XEON machines. The only hitch I noticed was a single latency spike when starting an OpenGL window, IE starting EMC causes one latency spike, or starting glxgears, once its running however its fine.
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