MCx 5 axis video card

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I've installed a Quadro FX 3450, .. and that didn't help at all. ;-(

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Verify and shading are no faster with the new card

than they were with the old card???

[cboggs]

gcode,

 

I haven't run verify, .. just back plot, .. and it wasn't any faster.

 

shading doesn't seem any faster, .. ???????

 

Curtis

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just back plot, .. and it wasn't any faster

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???

at full speed, backplot runs so fast you can't see

it. Do you have the speed slider bottomed out??

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I have stated earilier in this post that I had very little difference between a $150 card & a $1500 card. Processor speed makes the most dramatic impact with Mastercam.

 

I have not experiemented with a dual core processor, but I suspected the results you are seeing would be true. Mastercam is not written to take advantage of multiple processors....I think (hope) this will change in the near future because dual-core is becomming commonplace. Right now the best mastercam system would be the fasest single-core processor with solid vid-card (not necesarally a $1500 one)

 

Some Ge-Force cards can be modded into a Quadro using riva-tuner. http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163

 

very handy...and it works.

[cboggs]

James,

 

Can you explain how to mod a gforce 6800gs card into

a quadro with riva-tuner?

 

Settings etc to use, .. ?

 

Curtis