best stepper driver???????

[John S]

Is there any benifit from parallel port or USB...I found this 3 Axis CNC USB Card Mach3 200KHz Breakout Board Interface Speed: 48M Win 7 | eBay
I know it is more expense, but is it better quality ? and are there benifits ?

Not a lot to choose. More expensive and no better than a decent PP card but has the option of being able to use laptops and any USB interfaced computer.

There is an argument that PP port equiped computers are dying out, it is true but there are still 1,000's about for not much money that the argument isn't valid.
I buy Dell DX260 in bulk.



No mine but this is how they are offered, cost about £20 each with an XP license on them.

However we are trialling a couple of the USB boards, first one will be later this month and I expect that the price will drop.
The one shown is from a different company that the ones that developed them,