It is as good as the Intel Atom 330 boards if setup properly. But you have to do what Gene mentioned.
The same board works well with Mach3. Dave On 12/3/2012 3:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2012 15:28:25 Sven Wesley did opine: > > >> 2012/12/3 Dave<e...@dc9.tzo.com> >> >> >>> D525MW >>> >> I assume that you guys using the D525MW board also is using a Mesa >> board. I have two D525MW's and if you ask me their performance is >> really poor. I don't have to push it at all to reach latency values way >> above 50 000 ns. With a Mesa board yes, without no. >> >> /S >> > Sven, 2 things you MUST do. > > 1. Turn off the hyper-threading in the bios. > 2. Add isolcpus=1 to the end of the grub kernel line. > > With those 2 things, I flat cannot get a jitter of over 7.5 microseconds, > and I can run a 23 microsecond BASE_THREAD for hours before getting that > little advisor that said the latency was exceeded. And I have yet to have > a motor stall that I didn't first tell it to turn 800 or more rpms. At a > 25 microsecond BASE_THREAD, I have never seen a latency notice. > > Slow? Only if you are microstepping at divisors above /8. > > Cheers, Gene > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
