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That is one giant case you got there.

gera229 wrote:Yes, made from 20x20 extrusion.
Front view: picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/N7Z88ai8cR...pFm0?feat=directlink

Nice is that a monitor?
Looks like it's all built into the case.

How much did you spend to build that case?

gera229 wrote:Yes, it's a 17" touchscreen.

I think the screen was £120, the motherboard £80, £25 for the PicoPSU, £30 for the 12V PSU, £15 for the 5V/24V PSU, £25 for the 20x20 section, buttons £2 each from eBay, £120 for the Mesa 5i23, £10 for the riser.
Relays etc I have lost track, £20 for the contactor, £10 for the SSR that went in yesterday, £25 for the Arduino, £20 for the custom-made resolver interface PCBs, £20 for the terminal blocks, $250 for the 7i64, $120 for the 7i39...

There is probably £1000+ of parts there, but I spent it slowly, and a lot of it is parts I had from other projects.

I am building a rather serious machine, (I have 1.5kw of servo drives, plus the spindle) you wouldn't need to spend anything like that much.

I'm thinking I would not need a Mesa card right?

And only 1 Power supply.

Plus a separate power supply to power my HobbyCNC Pro board that I got from Hobbycnc.com

Hey so I found another Atom 330. Give me a reason why I should chose a D525 over an Atom 330 lol. I'm stuck between the choices. Both seem to perform good with onboard video and both have a built in parallel port.

Now according to the Latency Wiki, the Atom 330 has a lower jitter value than the D525 thus a better latency. That is why I'm confused here.

Aside from that, I do not not what settings the D525 used neither. It only says that it ran on Ubuntu version 10.04 and does not list if the one of the CPU cores was isolated to make it run on 1 core.

Maybe the D525 can perform better than shown in the latency test on the wiki?

Please let me know and convince me to get the right board.

If you use EMC2 with it let me know what results you get with either board.

Thanks.