I guess first requirement is that you have enough processing muscle to do the job. This means normally a CPU with multiple cores and a L2/L3 cache over 1MB.
Secondly, you need a motherboard well-engineered to reduce latencies. So far, Asrock boards are the King of the Hill by a long shot. ASUS is second. Everyone else is third. Thirdly, you want a fast disk system. Currently, PCIE-based solid state drives are the king of the hill here, followed by Sata III solid state drives, then Sata II solid state drives, then Sata III 7200RPM hard drives. Fourth, you want fast memory and I would recommend 2GB for XP, 4GB for Win7x86 and 6+B for Win7x64.DDR3-1333 is normally the fastest stock memory speed. Fifth, a good clean power supply, 450-750 watts. I prefer modular power supplies as you do not need to have so many cords inside the case, clogging up the airflow. Finally, a crap-free installation of the operating system with tweaked settings to keep out of the way of the radio! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:11 PM, George Osier <gos...@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > I've spoken with Neil a bit on this ..... What are the most important specs > to have when building a SDR computer??? > > Quad core , L3 cache , USB chip ?????? > > Thanks !!! > > George , N2JNZ > > _______________________________________________ > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
