I agree with Cecil. When I first got my 5000A I was running it on a Pentium 4, single core, non-hyperthreading, 2.8Ghz cpu with 1.5GB of memory in an older HP Vectra desktop. It ran beautifully, rarely getting over 15% usage, but I didn't have any other stuff running in the background. As soon as I opened Firefox and started surfing or checking my email, or playing a CD, the usage would go up to where my primary application (PowerSDR) would suffer. If all you have is an older machine, go ahead and tweak it up and use it, but just don't expect it to run everything at once. Jim KQ6EA
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, k5nwa <k5...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > From: k5nwa <k5...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] computer power > To: y...@aol.com > Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1:02 PM > On 4/23/2009 2:34 PM, y...@aol.com wrote: > > Hi > > ?Have a quick question, have been running my 5000a on > a? HP? p-4? at 3.0 with 2 gig of ddr ram. I have NEVER had > any problems with this simple system and the 5000a. I have > the prescribed fire wire card and run the system in safe > mode. My cpu usage meter is always very low. at 192. > > ?? I guess my question is ,after reading messages > from" those in the know" my system should't > even run. I keep seeing 2-4 gig of ddr2 ram and dual core? > or quad core? units are the only way to go. Ive had 2?? > sdr-1000's and a 5000a"? all able to blow my socks > off "with their fine performances. Iam I missing > something,either in terms of performance that I don't > know, that I don't have. My simple system has been > cleaned up of most anything that would have sucked system > resources away from the radio ,using xp-pro. the computer > does nothing except the flex. > > ???? Just curious, > > thanks > > dale wt4t > > ?? > > > People here ask constantly if system X is powerful enough, > the answer is it depends on the software on the machine. I > have an old Dell 220 which has 2 Pentium III at 1GHz a > fossil by today's standard yet it only uses 15% at 96K > the reason it's so is because it does not have anything > fancy installed and has a profile that is stripped down to > bare bones(I probably could do better, but it's good > enough). You also see people with Quad core PC's with > poor audio due to all the junk they have on their PCs. > > You are doing fine, super fast PC's help people that > either don't want to bother or know how to tweak their > systems, but it's not a guarantee that they will be > suscessful. > > -- > Cecil Bayona > K5NWA > www.k5nwa.com www.qrpradio.com > < http://parts.softrockradio.org/> > > "Windows, the most successful software virus > ever" Don Seglio Batuna > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
