The more recent integrated graphics chips, starting from the Intel HD3000,
have adequate performance for crystallography. Really, most crystallography
applications are less computationally demanding than video games now. I
think the most important issue is to make sure your hardware plays nicely
wi
I will comment on specific features you might look for in a
crystallographic workstation, rather than brand names. I usually build
from parts rather than buy intact machines.
CPU: 3+ GHz per compute core is good these days. For a standard single
user desktop, 4 CPU cores is fine. More cores wi
I'm running home-built Ubuntu boxes with old, plain-vanilla CPUs (e.g.,
Q9300 or core i3/i5/i7) and 6-8Gbyte of RAM, and a cheap Nvidia video
card (e.g. GT 9xxx or GT 620).This is more than sufficient to do routine
structure solution. Any contemporary desktop or laptop computer should
be suffic
Dear ccp4 bb members,
I need to buy a desktop workstation for the purpose of running
crystallography related applications. I have short-listed HP's Z420 and
Dell's T7600, I chose this because their configuration description looks
impressive (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.6 GHz processor etc.). However, I
