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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: wmgeorge on May 07, 2020, 08:37:25 PM
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A guy local to me has a Mini PC Win 10 Pro 4Gb memory, 64 Gb storage, with room for ssd. Atom processor? Will this run Mach4 with USB PMDX board? I have the PMDX board installed in my control box, tested and working on my Mac Book Pro parallels with Win 7.
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See if he will let you load the Mach4 demo on it and play around.
Video graphics being slow is the most likely consequence of an underpowered PC.
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Hi,
my machine run ons a dual core Atom mini-ITX single board PC with on-chip graphics. It wouldn't 'pull the skin
off a rice pudding' yet it runs an Ethernet SmoothStepper and Mach4 very well.
The only time I notice the low power of the CPU is when I go to load large files, say 5MB or bigger. It takes quite a while to
load and draw the first tool path, thereafter its fine.
Mach4 is not a hungry program, even a very modest PC will run it fine. Don't waste money on a 'you beauty' PC, you'd be better
off spending a bit more on that next spindle....or tools....or servos...or ballscrews ...or....
Craig
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I don't know about PDMX - but I'm running Mach4 on an intel Compute Stick. It doesn't get much more 'mini' than that! It's just a little bigger than a typical USB Thumb drive.
I really didn't expect it to work - but it runs beautifully!
While it only has USB (one USB2 & one USB3), I have it connected to a USB Ethernet controller to talk to a CSMIO/IP-M motion controller.