Or better yet, using dual monitors, you can play Battlefield 3 while watching the bands with your flex for that DX, and still take a Skype call in real-time, and not miss one beat in any one of those processes.
73, Mike W5CUL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Jannuzzo Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 4:11 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] (no subject) I concurrently concur. The Emporer has no clothes- you need PC oomph to use all the sampling, with low latency buffers, and third party software for logging and equipment control. I wanted more oomph after PSDR 2 came out with its pretty skins of molasses. Then I needed more oomph when I added RX2. I know that many people can enjoy their $3,500 radio with a $500 PC. But I look outside at my antennae, and figure my PC should at least cost more than my feedlines. And the side benefit is that I can play Battlefield 3 when the propagation dies. > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:23:02 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FlexEdge] (no subject) > > I admit it right up front. I have a bad-ass computer. Beginning with my > Altair (anybody remember those?) and working forward, I've always built my > own computers, with the exception of my last one, which I bought in a > moment of temporary insanity. It was a game-but-lame little Gateway with a > Core Duo processor and 2GB of RAM. Now that is gone and I'm typing this on > a homebuilt AMD Phenom II 6-core with 16GB of RAM, a wicked fast graphics > card, a nice solid-state drive, and all the trimmings. > > The cost for all this luxury? A thousand bucks and change. Much less than > most people think, a little more than half the price of a 3000. Two hours > of my time to assemble it, another two hours to install the OS, reload the > apps, and move over the data. > > What's my point? Well, I made the remark a few days ago that a good radio > needs a good computer. Ever since, people have been chiming in to report > that they have old or small computers that run PSDR just fine. "The > latency is short enough that I've gotten used to it and it mostly doesn't > bother me," said one of our faithful, who took me to task in a private > email for being a computer snob. > > Although someone will probably chime in to say that they are able to run > PSDR with a germanium crystal, a cat's hair, a bobby pin, and two rubber > bands, we continue to hear all the little bits of guidance: You'll need to > run GBoost...run Autorun...turn off services...get a registry optimizer... > > I appreciate that some folks (like me!) are workin' stiffs without a lot of > extra cash. But we all saved up for our Flex radios and we can all save up > for good computers. And then we won't need GBoost or Autorun or PC > Optimizer. We won't need one computer to run the radio and another to do > everything else. We won't have to worry about latencies or CPU usage. We > can just play in the radio sandbox. > > A good radio needs a good computer. > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
