Does anyone know if purchasing a new faster video card will extend the usability of an old 3 Gig HP Pentium 4 with 3 Gigs of RAM? I'm not in the market for a new computer and PowerSDR 1.18.3 is running very nicely on the old computer at this time.
Edwin Marzan AB2VW > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:49:14 -0500 > From: r...@w9ray.org > To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] ...back to 1.18 > > Yeah Defiantly time for a newer computer.. > > IMHO its foolish to try run a $2700 computer based radio, on a > computer that most people have threw out along the curb by now. > > Just for comparison > > The 2.4ghz came out may of 2003 with 55 million transistors > > The core 2 quads came out jan of 2008 with 800 million transistors > which easily run the flex hardware as hard as u can. > > The newest intel Core-i7 6 core processors have 1.17 billion > transistors. which is way overkill for anything... lol > > A very capable computer can easily be bought or built for less than 1/3 > of the cost of the radio. > > The computer is the most important part of the radio system here. > The black box that says Flexradio on it just sits there it doesn't do > much of the work at all.. > > w9Ray > > > > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Pete Parisetti <hb9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> In a way, I am glad to see that many successfully run 2.0. > >> > >> In another, I find it frustrating... I do not seem to be able to find an > >> acceptable compromise between acceptable TX/RX switchover, sampling rate > >> and > >> audio cracking/popping. If I fix one problem, by adjusting sampling rate > >> (the higher, the less TX/RX problems), the other becomes worse (audio > >> artifacts, annoyingly present at 192 kHz even with a CPU usage at around > >> 30-35%). Plus, phantom signal on the panadapter pop up everywhere. All this > >> with 5K, win xp, p4 2.4. > >> > >> So, I sadly decided to go back to 1.18, which looks miserable but works > >> better for me (I am an active DXer much more than a software tweaker). The > >> funny thing is that I am not able to install firmware version 1.3.0.8. The > >> self extracting routine advises me of "Error code=1", "not able to find the > >> folder where the firmware is supposed to be located". I have to sue the > >> previous version, which is not recommended. > >> > >> Any suggestion on how to fix this? Thanks a lot in advance. > >> > >> 73 Pete > >> > >> -- > >> ___________________________ > >> Pete Parisetti MM0TWX - HB9DSU > >> for music, ham radio and more > >> visit http://www.hb9dsu.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Flexedge mailing list > >> flexe...@flex-radio.biz > >> 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 alpha and beta versions of the software. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Flexedge mailing list > > flexe...@flex-radio.biz > > 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 alpha and beta versions of the software. > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
