I agree with David, get as much RAM as you can afford and your system will allow. As for the number of cores, I'm of the opinion that more cores are better, even if they're a little slower. Honestly, when you consider the speeds modern processors run at and the relatively small amount of work CPFind/Hugin/Enblend have to do, the CPU frequency doesn't matter that much. It would matter if you were doing calculations on humongous amounts of data that take hours or days to complete. Other things to consider a CPU, beyond the clock frequency, are: cache size (the more the better, the amount of cache is one feature that distinguishes Intel's server chips from their desktop chips), how much energy it consumes, whether integrated graphics is important to you (I'm not a big gamer, so having an external graphics card isn't very important to me), or overclocking, support for virtualization (I like to experiment with virtual machines, so this was important to me), and other nifty feature in some Intel chips such as wireless display (but you have to have an adapter for your tv), or vPro. Sorry, I probably just made the process of buying a CPU a little more difficult for you, didn't I?
Your OS will always be handling dozens of processes at a time, so the more cores your system has, the better the OS can distribute them (at least in theory :) -Jeff ------------------------------- I meant for my last message to be posted as a reply on the forum instead of directly to you. I clicked the wrong button, I guess. Would you mind posting it? It appears I don't have access to it anymore. -Jeff -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/ea4ba9af-d462-454d-b1b6-af430b664cae%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
