FWIW I agree with the 16 Gb target. My current PC takes cheap DDR3 so, from
8Gb I maxed out at 32 Gb. Now I see next to hard page faults ... and I
suspect I overdid the upgrade.
Another consideration is the operating system. Linux is generally reckoned
to be less bloated and have a smaller
On 2/7/2020 12:34 PM, j...@comcast.net wrote:
I’m in the market for a new computer, to be used largely for high-end
WSJT-X applications like maxed-out JT65 decoding on EME.
My shack computer is a T540 Thinkpad that I bought about four years ago.
It has an 2.7 GHz i7 processor and fast SSD. It
Don't bother with less than 16GB. 4GB is considered absolute minimum for
Windows 10 when you aren't doing anything.CPU bound includes memory speed too
as does cache matter so faster memory and bigger cache can help considerably.
This would be my criteria
#1 Minimum memory -- 16GB#2 Minimum disk
I'm in the market for a new computer, to be used largely for high-end WSJT-X
applications like maxed-out JT65 decoding on EME. (I'd also like
performance headroom to support possible features of future releases, like
FT8 diversity reception or even deeper decoding algorithms.) However, I
don't
