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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Vertex on February 04, 2010, 10:29:58 AM

Title: Motherboard for Mach3
Post by: Vertex on February 04, 2010, 10:29:58 AM
Advise, please, model motherboard which well works with Mach3 (LPT port), without glitch.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Motherboard for Mach3
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on February 04, 2010, 12:20:23 PM
The one I use is the GA-8 SIMLH P4 Titan-DDR Motherboard which works perfectly with Mach and my machines.
This is an old board which was bought second hand on ebay - most new boards do not have the parallel port nowdays (although I do use a PCI parallel port card the onboard port is still handy to have).

Tweakie.
Title: Re: Motherboard for Mach3
Post by: RICH on February 04, 2010, 01:34:38 PM
Here are the pc components which were used for my new Mach3 pc. The pulse fequency is solid and no problems
at all.
Here are some basics:
- Asus motherboard - M2N68-AM SE2
- 2 GIG Ram
- AMD  64X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.7 Ghz
- Asus graphics Card - EN9600GSO
- Rosewill PCI pp card - RC302

Works for me anyway and didn't cost an arm and a leg to have it put together.
You may want to consider a dual PP card.
RICH