Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

Alright, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Any suggestions for a good system monitoring tool to see proper usages? Also, is there any benefit in updating the Quadro drivers that Dell has pre-installed? If so, would the proper procedure be to uninstall the drivers, run driver cleaner, reboot, load ...

I hope this doesn't get confusing. For clarity sake, I will rate each processor (as XP sees it in the task manager - performance tab) from 0/10 - 10/10. If the affinity is set to both, then one will show ~ 7/10 and the other ~3/10 (ie a total of 10/20, 50% in the process tab). If I set the affinity ...

Does disabling the hyper-threading allow eCabinet to the whole processor?

I saw eCabinet Systems running on a new Precision 390 P4 3GHz system and when I checked how much CPU usage it was using, it showed only a maximum of 50%. I checked the affinity settings on the ecabinet process, there was the option of cpu0 and cpu1. I checked to make sure that it wasn't a dual core ...

Thanks for the reply, I have read the other posts and I understand it takes a lot of work and time to re-write the program, but I do feel it would be good to hear if there is any goal or plans for it.

I'm looking at a new system primarily to run eCabinets. My concern is that the system recommended by Thermwood is a single core in an age when dual core systems are opening up a lot of possibilities. I would hate to buy a single core running 3 GHz (~3.6GHz maxed out) and in a few months have the ...