On Friday 26 October 2012 09:14:36 Sven Wesley did opine: > > 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 > > Even better, a D525MW would fit _inside_ my servo controller cabinet... > > /S
There you go. :) Its psu is different, which is why I bought the whole box with a 250Gb rotating drive, and an optical drive to facilitate the install from our cd based on 10-04.4 LTS. Apparently total compatibility. Go into the bios (update it to latest first), turn off the hyperthreading, install from the cd, then add "isolcpus=1" to the kernel command line in grub.conf, and its off to the races. I have cat5 to both boxes, and update-manager scans for updates daily, so when I go out to do something, I usually let them do the updates while I'm mounting the work. 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! The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. -- Will Rogers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
