On Thursday, 27 March, 2014 11:25:32 Dale Tronrud wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My lab desktop PC broke and I'm looking into replacements. Being
> tired of the enormous tower (full of air) occupying much of my desk
> I looking at systems like the Intel NUC. These systems are too small
> for video cards so I'd be working with the integrated Intel graphics.
> Is the 5000 version of their graphics good enough for Coot to work
> nice? I am not interested in stereo.
Yes and no.
I have been happily running a succession of fanless mini-ITX
boxes at home, and for at least the last 4 years the HD 3000/4000
integrated graphics has been more than adequate for anything I wanted
to do. (that's the "yes" part).
But the most recent box I purchase is also an HD4000 system and coot
has a problem with it (see separate thread).
It is quite fast right up until the instant that any atom labels appear,
at which point it slows down by a factor of ten.
This is clearly a software quirk, but I have been unable to
pin down where in the graphics stack it occurs. For now I am trying
to get used to clicking "clear all labels" before rotating the view.
That's the "no" part.
All other programs I use are fine, by the way.
I have only see this quirk with coot.
Ethan
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> Dale Tronrud
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