Old Intel E5300 2.6Ghz good enough for Mesa 7i76E?

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20 Jun 2018 12:34 #112627 by herselmann
Hi,

I'm looking for a small PC and found an Intel E5300 2.6Ghz CPU with 2GB DDR2 RAM based PC. Will this be good enough for the Mesa 7i76e Ethernet card? The CPU seems to be from 2008 era so not the latest. I can go and test it with a USB LinuxCNC boot disk but not sure what latency figures to look for to know if it is good or bad.

Otherwise my search for a small PC will continue...

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20 Jun 2018 13:06 #112628 by tecno
Run latency-histogram --nobase and show the result and I am sure you will get answer if it is good enough.

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20 Jun 2018 15:55 #112633 by herselmann
The thing is I will have to go to the guy and test it there. I haven't bought it yet.

I was hoping there are some ball park figures I can work on when I'm going to look at the PC and base my decision to buy or not on the findings.

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20 Jun 2018 15:57 #112634 by tecno
Download the LIVE CD and do the test when there.

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20 Jun 2018 16:01 #112635 by herselmann
I've already got a USB flash drive with it on. Don't think the PC has a RON drive, it's a small form factor box.

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20 Jun 2018 16:43 #112638 by PCW
The live CD image will work from a USB drive. I would download the LinuxCNC Stretch test ISO and test it with the latency test or histogram. Also make sure you disable power management in the BIOS. If the E5300 doesn't perform well enough
you can upgrade the CPU chip to a E8500 for about $8.00 (3X the cache and 3.16 GHz)

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20 Jun 2018 17:18 #112642 by herselmann
Linuxcnc stretch? Where do I get that?

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20 Jun 2018 17:32 #112646 by PCW
The following user(s) said Thank You: herselmann

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21 Jun 2018 11:57 #112716 by herselmann
I've also been reading some other threads on here and the AsRock J3355B seems to come up alot. Makes me think for a few bucks more I can ditch the old intel and get more up to date tech. Seems like the J3355B works well with LCNC?

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21 Jun 2018 13:01 #112724 by InMyDarkestHour
I'm going thru a testing phase now on the J3355B.

Have installed the Stretch iso on one SSD and Mint-18.3 (mate) on another, from what I can gather uspace can tolerate slightly higher latencies when using a Mesa ethernet card.

Next on the list is an install of debian stretch net-inst with Mate desktop. I mirrored most of Stretch on my home server so messing around and such doesn't take so much time as it would downloading it from the net during an install.
Have setup a PXE server so I don't even have to bother with usb sticks :)

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