Good Day All.
 
I am looking for some advice.

I am looking at building brand new computer for use with Mach3.

My current Mach3 system, is an old Intel Pentium 4, with 1Gb Memory, 120Gb SATA Hard Drive, 32Mb Video Card, PCI Printer Port Card, running on Windows XP Home.
 
I would like to be able to run Mach3 with Windows 7.

I know the Mach3 home page shows the min specs as:
32-bit version of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 Operating System.
1Ghz CPU.
512MB RAM.
Non-integrated Video Card with 32MB RAM.

Would the small form factor motherboards like the AMD Fusion or Intel Atom be ok with Windows 7 and Mach3?

I would still be using the PCI Printer Port Card unto I upgrade to Ethernet SmoothStepper.

Thanks for your time.
 
Best Regards.

Its hard to say what boards will work and what will not.

That being said you should be OK. Please note that the PP Driver WILL NOT work with a 64bit OS of any version, so if you plan to use Win7 make sure its a 32bit OS otherwise you'll be upgrading to a Smooth Stepper from the get-go.