[Skimmertalk] CPU for Skimmerserver

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

>From http://www.dxatlas.com/SkimServer:
System Requirements

   - *CPU*
     Minimum: Pentium 4, 3 GHz, SSE3 instruction set
     Recommended: Intel Core i7 2600
   - *RAM:* 1 Gb
   - *OS:* Win95/Win98/WinNT4/WinME/Win2000/WinXP, or Windows 7 (32-bit or
   64-bit).
   - *Receiver:* QS1R <http://www.philcovington.com/QuickSilver/> (7 bands)
   or USRP <http://www.ettus.com/> (4 bands)
   - *Disk space:* 10 Mb

I'm using an older 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and have not seen CPU
utilization go above 42%.

According to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php:

CPU Name                   Passmark CPU Mark       Rank
                          (higher is better)   (lower is better)
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz          370               1425   Minimum
Intel Core2 Duo 3.0 GHz         1694                696   N6TV
Intel Core i3-3217U 1.8 GHz     2178                566   NewEgg Computer
Intel Core i7-2600 3.4 GHz      8417                 62   Recommended

Which means the i3 you're planning to buy is much faster than the minimum,
much faster that what I am using, but slower than the "recommended" one.

If the computer is dedicated to Skimmer Only (+Aggregator), I suggest
setting 'Number of Threads' to 2 if you have a dual core machine like the
i3.  If you have a quad core, set it to 4.  8-core, use 8 threads, etc.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:57 PM, <marcelo at alternex.com.br> wrote:

>
>
> Hi everyoneThis is my first post here in skimmertalk.I´ve
> just got 2 QS1R receivers to use as Skimmer servers. One will be
> installedin South
> Brazil, with a fast i7 PC.I plan to setup the other one at my remote
> station, and since it will share thecabinet space with all my other stuff
> I need a
> small, energy efficient andpowerful computer. Ok, I know this is a
> difficult
> task.I am absolutely novice to skimmerserver, so my question is, is
> something as thisone in the link below powerful enough to decode 96kHz on 7
> bands?
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002Thanks for
> the help!Marcelo, PY1KN
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