I need a new computer. Reccomendations?

[Here's Johnny!]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=6434 time=1612962024 user_id=50]
I sae on for 3500 on the site is that like average?
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Pete look at the Lenovo P17 work station laptops from their website, sometime they are clearing them out.

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P17/p/22WSP17P7N1">https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/th ... 2WSP17P7N1">https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P17/p/22WSP17P7N1

[crazy^millman]

Yesh I run a RTX5000 card on a 128gb Dell Laptop. I ordered it with the class 40 256gb SSD drives. I cloned the primary to a 1tb Samsung 970 Pro SSD and the moved the Samsumg Pro 960 1tb from my old system into this one. I am looking at the 980 Pro and will have 3 1TB SSDs on this thing. I have a 8TB backup I keep everything backed up on kept offline along with several older HD's I pull data from.

Xi would not be on my Radar they don't offer enough RAM on the their Laptops.
Digital Storm looks promising.

[Tim Johnson]

Do the RTX cards rely speed up  things for mastercam? Moving from 2019 to 2021 The most thing I am waiting on is the Chain Manager to pop up and also the trim, I can Clke both enitys and still wait, then poff its done. I love Mastercam and have been using it for 25 years but some times WTF

The Quadro RTX cards are the later generation so by default they will be faster. The bigger issue is how much RAM is in the cards. The more RAM the faster the processing is.

Our Spectrometers are/were using the RTX 5000 just for the processing power. The card was processing over a million calculations a second. I would expect that their using the RTX 8000 now but I don't know that.

[CNCAppsJames]

...clock speed ... the faster the better.. a plain Jane i7 will outperform a big $$$ Xeon ...
SS Hard drive  .. the faster the better

That is the God's honest truth. I've got a Xeon in my laptop and I am DEFINITELY NOT impressed. I won't waste the money next time.

Best bang for the buck in the SSD realm is the Samsung NVMe 970 EVO Plus. It is orders magnitude faster than whatever trash shipped with my Dell originally. That drive isn't even good enough to store data compared to the Samsungs.

JM2CFWIW HTH

[Rob B]

This has been great for me
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD-Workstation-i7-10700K-3-80G-32Gb-500Gb-SSD-Quadro-RTX-4000/154137684010?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649">https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD ... 2749.l2649">https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD-Workstation-i7-10700K-3-80G-32Gb-500Gb-SSD-Quadro-RTX-4000/154137684010?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

[byte]

[quote="Rob B" post_id=6784 time=1613359983 user_id=118]
This has been great for me
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD-Workstation-i7-10700K-3-80G-32Gb-500Gb-SSD-Quadro-RTX-4000/154137684010?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649">https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD ... 2749.l2649">https://www.ebay.com/itm/SolidWorks-CAD-Workstation-i7-10700K-3-80G-32Gb-500Gb-SSD-Quadro-RTX-4000/154137684010?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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If that link shipped to canada I probably would order one.

[Rob B]

It is a great system. Well built good feedback.

[byte]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=6434 time=1612962024 user_id=50]
I sae on for 3500 on the site is that like average?

$3500 will buy a pretty good machine
The requirements for a high performance Mastercam machine,  in order are
E
clock speed ... the faster the better.. a plain Jane i7 will outperform a big $$$ Xeon
cores,         ...  the more the better
Ram            ...  the more the better  32g for light work .. 64 and up for heavy work
Quadro video card  ... the RTX is the latest greatest..  many people use Geforce gaming cards successfully too
SS Hard drive  .. the faster the better
[/quote]
What specs do u have g?
Im leaning toward the boxx, but I need to know how to balance cores vs ram etc..

[gcode]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=8392 time=1615925384 user_id=50]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=6434 time=1612962024 user_id=50]
I sae on for 3500 on the site is that like average?

$3500 will buy a pretty good machine
The requirements for a high performance Mastercam machine,  in order are
E
clock speed ... the faster the better.. a plain Jane i7 will outperform a big $$$ Xeon
cores,         ...  the more the better
Ram            ...  the more the better  32g for light work .. 64 and up for heavy work
Quadro video card  ... the RTX is the latest greatest..  many people use Geforce gaming cards successfully too
SS Hard drive  .. the faster the better
[/quote]
What specs do u have g?
Im leaning toward the boxx, but I need to know how to balance cores vs ram etc..
[/quote]
See my siggy on eMC

[Matthew Hajicek]

I just picked up one of these for a budget friendly grammin' box at home:
https://www.newegg.com/hp-omen-30l/p/3D5-0005-00C08">https://www.newegg.com/hp-omen-30l/p/3D5-0005-00C08

Out of stock now though.

[byte]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=8392 time=1615925384 user_id=50]

$3500 will buy a pretty good machine
The requirements for a high performance Mastercam machine,  in order are
E
clock speed ... the faster the better.. a plain Jane i7 will outperform a big $$$ Xeon
cores,         ...  the more the better
Ram            ...  the more the better  32g for light work .. 64 and up for heavy work
Quadro video card  ... the RTX is the latest greatest..  many people use Geforce gaming cards successfully too
SS Hard drive  .. the faster the better

What specs do u have g?
Im leaning toward the boxx, but I need to know how to balance cores vs ram etc..

See my siggy on eMC
[/quote]
True, true

[gcode]

I like these guys too

https://www.xicomputer.com/solutions/MasterCAM/">https://www.xicomputer.com/solutions/MasterCAM/

their prices are better than Boxx and you can go crazy customizing your machine

[Here's Johnny!]

I like these guys too

https://www.xicomputer.com/solutions/MasterCAM/">https://www.xicomputer.com/solutions/MasterCAM/

their prices are better than Boxx and you can go crazy customizing your machine

Prices were higher than the Dell laptop  I got at work.

That said I am now on my third laptop (previous 2 were lemons), this one seems  good.

[gcode]

I've got no use for a laptop.
If I did, I'd probably buy a Dell.
I buy overclocked i9 workstations
You can't get those from Dell.
For years I bought expensive Dell Xeon's, but
the benchmark threads on eMC have conclusively proved
that they are a waste of money for Mastercam
I personally own 2 Boxx machines and my employer has a dozen.
The have been totally reliable. The oldest was purchased in 2014.
I bricked one of mine a couple of weeks ago and reinstalled Windows
I needed help getting the overclocking back to specs (5.0 ghz) and called customer support.
The machine was out of warranty, but it never came up.
I gave the guy my serial number and he took care of it.
Amazing customer support

[Here's Johnny!]

I've got no use for a laptop.
If I did, I'd probably buy a Dell.
I buy overclocked i9 workstations
You can't get those from Dell.
For years I bought expensive Dell Xeon's, but
the benchmark threads on eMC have conclusively proved
that they are a waste of money for Mastercam
I personally own 2 Boxx machines and my employer has a dozen.
The have been totally reliable. The oldest was purchased in 2014.
I bricked one of mine a couple of weeks ago and reinstalled Windows
I needed help getting the overclocking back to specs (5.0 ghz) and called customer support.
The machine was out of warranty, but it never came up.
I gave the guy my serial number and he took care of it.
Amazing customer support

My new laptop and desktops are all i9 units from Dell. Not overclocked though.