It is difficult to generalize, but on many existing older PCs you can remove the existing motherboard and replace it with a D525MW. The D525MW does not have an IDE drive interface so if you want to reuse the hard drive and CD rom etc, you need to make sure the existing PC has a SATA hard drive and CD/DVD drive. I tend to reuse cases and power supplies when possible, but motherboards, particulary the D525MW are pretty cheap for what you get.
Dave On 2/19/2012 1:20 PM, Alan Browning wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. So you build your machines from the ground up > with new componenets? Due to budget limitations I have to build things on the > cheap. So I was thinking of obtaining a refurbished machine and adding a > video card. I think the mainboards that you name are likely to be much newer > than anything I would obtain going the refurbished route. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Viesturs Lācis<viesturs.la...@gmail.com> > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)<emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Which video card/driver for LinuxCNC? > > 2012/2/19 Alan Browning<ajbrowning2...@yahoo.com>: > >> I'm in the beginning stages of planning a DIY CNC machine using Ubuntu and >> LinuxCNC. The Problematic Hardware section of the doc says that onboard >> video is problematic. >> > I think that the statement about onboard video cards being problematic > is either obsolete or is true for specific mainboard models, because > there is huge number of LinuxCNC users that have D510MO / D525MW > mainboards in their LinuxCNC machines and are very happy about them. > Latency numbers are good and there are no complaints about videocard > performance. > I have built 4 such machines and will continue on using this exact > line of mainboards in future. > > Viesturs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
