On Friday 26 October 2012 04:29:34 Sven Wesley did opine: > I did some testing yesterday. I upgraded the graphics driver (Nvidia) > and the latency test went from 18 000 to 150 000... I removed the > driver and reconfigured X and came down to a sweet 7 000, but there's > something messing things up as the latency all of a sudden popped up to > 15 800. Running the machine headless is on my top prio to see what > happens. Mesa card is high on the wish list too. I have a new machine > project and Mesa is the way to go in that case (5 axis 3,3 m long). > > Andy, Gene and Pete, same guys replied to my questions ages ago. Good to > see you're still here. :-) > > /S
Thanks for the flowers Sven. As for still here, I had a birthday a few days back, and can now truthfully say that I've been 39 and holding, for 39 years, so the shotgun that runs me off will probably resemble Father Time's Scythe. That said, the praise we've been giving the Intel D525MW motherboard is well deserved. For about a $260 line on your card statement, a complete box in shoebox fashion, that has latency figures in the 3 to 7 microsecond range can be on the end of your parport cable. Both my toy mill and my toy lathe could run faster now but would need more amps and volts from the psu to do it, the cpu isn't the limit. Considering the spindle power either machine has is 10% of what it needs, its working very well indeed, but is harder on carbide chips than they should be because the cut is so thin. IOW, don't fight with a box that is unsuitable for the job. Bin it, and get one of these that runs things faster, on 20% or less the power consumption of the older box that is eating your lunch with its assorted gotchas. Once configured, these D525MW's Just Work(TM). Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! BOFH excuse #44: bank holiday - system operating credits not recharged ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
