Re: [Emc-users] atom processor

[Michael B. <mb...@bu...>]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 17:03:23 Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hi all,  Have just lost my shop cnc computer motherboard gone as best I 
> can tell.   Have been looking  on line a new computers and there are a 
> couple cheap ones  with an atom processor 1.6 ghtz   a couple gigs of 
> ram am wondering if anyone has used this processor with Emc.
>         Anybody got any ideas on this.
>                                   Thanks, Doug

You must be careful with onboard hardware.
My machine has onboard graphics that's not usable for realtime. I had to
insert a PCIe graphics card to get reasonable realtime latency.

The CPU should be OK, as long as you turn off frequency scaling and
probably hyperthreading, too.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.