[Machinekit] Re: Good Base PC for low latency

2017-01-23 Thread andrew bishop
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-SFF-980-i7-860-Quad-2-8GHz-8GB-1TB-DVD-RW-Win-7-Pro-64Bit-/252730566706?hash=item3ad7ea6832:g:BlUAAOSw44BYf-8T something like this looks to be a good start. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github:

[Machinekit] Re: Good Base PC for low latency

2017-01-23 Thread andrew bishop
the machine i'm running now is an old i7 with linux cnc on it for my primary mill. i had heard good things about older hardware but i'll start my search with some nice vintage i7's and see what i can come up with. i just want to make sure this build goes off with out a hitch. -- website:

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Good Base PC for low latency

2017-01-23 Thread Bas de Bruijn
> On 23 Jan 2017, at 22:44, Bas de Bruijn wrote: > > > >> On 23 Jan 2017, at 21:03, hosaneemich...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Machinekit is a group of people that helps build the linux kernel for real >> time constraints. > > Machinekit is a fork of Linuxcnc. Among the

[Machinekit] Re: Good Base PC for low latency

2017-01-23 Thread hosaneemichael
Hi Andrew, I would say the best thing you could buy is a core i-7. These are known for better multitasking purposes since they handle threads a lot better as opposed to the i5 or i3. If you can get something with a big cache on the chip (8MB cache > 6MB cache), will help you a lot since the