Is There a Known Good Hardware List?

I've been searching around here for a few hours and keep coming up empty handed.

I'm in the midst of building my second CNC milling machine, a three-axis (for now) Grizzly G0704. My existing CNC mill is a four axis Sherline/A2ZCNC system running Mach3 on an old Windoze XP machine. It's a 12 year old P4, 2.6 GHz with 1 GB of RAM and a 150 GB HD. By carefully stripping virtually everything off that machine, I've had no issues running Mach3. I have a duplicate system I'd like to run LinuxCNC on.

For this big project, I'd like to dump the parallel port and go to a motion control board linked by USB (seems the most reasonable option). I don't know if the PC I have can even run LinuxCNC and the required OS. I've run Ubuntu on two different machines in the past and the unavailability of drivers for various things I wanted was very frustrating. A list of hardware known to work would be really helpful.

Can anyone point me to such a list?

Bob
(CFLBob is for "Central Florida", not Compact Fluorescent Lamp!)

I've been searching around here for a few hours and keep coming up empty handed.

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC_Supported_Hardware
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Latency-Test

For this big project, I'd like to dump the parallel port and go to a motion control board linked by USB (seems the most reasonable option).

Won't work.
Linuxcnc IS a motion controller, so you don't need another one.
USB does not work in realtime or anything approaching it.
(search the forum, I won't bother repeating what has been covered ad nauseum previously)

There are other options on the wiki.

Thanks.

I see my search ninja skills need work. I was searching here on the forums, not in the Wiki at all

If you want a stable PC (this year I used it on more than 6 machines):

Motherboard MSI H97M-E35 1
Intel Pentium G3460 3.5GHz 3MB SK1150 (BX80646G3460)
4Gb of RAM

This PC build is quite solid and fast, preforms quite well in linuxcnc.

Thanks for that. It's really helpful. It has been so long since I built a PC from a pile of parts (it was probably this 12 year old machine) that I'm really out of touch with the options out there.

Well you can reply on that hardware. It is quite fast and I build several machines like I told you, so it is "already tested".
A bit more expensive, but if in the end it makes your time more profitable.

emcPT wrote:

If you want a stable PC (this year I used it on more than 6 machines):

Motherboard MSI H97M-E35 1
Intel Pentium G3460 3.5GHz 3MB SK1150 (BX80646G3460)
4Gb of RAM

This PC build is quite solid and fast, preforms quite well in linuxcnc.

I found one of these locally. Do you use the onboard video adapter or add a card?

Thanks for that. It's really helpful. It has been so long since I built a PC from a pile of parts (it was probably this 12 year old machine) that I'm really out of touch with the options out there.

Me too.

I use the onboard video without issues, HDMI output.