Since we're getting out our PC manhoods... I too use a gaming PC. Big fans, water cooled, over-clocked i7, dual video SLI, etc., etc., blah, blah. It is very quiet actually. A Digital Storm system. The big slow fans are the key to being quiet. I don't game, but do video processing and computer modeling. What I like about a gaming computer build is that there is absolutely no bloatware that can't be removed... well, there is no bloatware at all right out of the box. Digital Storm now sells systems even quieter than mine that do vertical cooling.
I've even run video processing in the background while flexing. Now that works it out and the fans spool up a bit under those conditions. When not doing anything but amateur radio, I can run every bit of amateur radio software I have and it never gets above 25% processor usage. DPC.. less than 15 microsecond with occasional spikes to 75 microseconds. Also note this computer serves as the iTunes media server for my whole house. So the wife and kids can be streaming a movie/music from it to several Apple TV devices while I am Flexing. No problem. It just yawns. 73, Scott AC8DE -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alfred Green Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Fast PC... On 12/5/2011 12:51 PM, James T Kirk wrote: > HAF-X Coolermaster computer case > > I think that's sufficient to run Flex. Ah, yes. Certainly enough to run PSDR. But will you be able to hear anything? I don't remember the HAF-X designation, but I do recall looking at a Coolermaster case the last time I built a PC. Mostly plastic, with a few blue LEDs in it. I expect a fair amount of RFI to come from that. With the high-frequency CPUs and video cards comes a lot of crud. When my youngest boy was still living here I could tell when he fired up his gaming machine. I built it for him so I had only myself to blame. 73 Alf NU8I Scottsdale AZ DM43an _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
