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Simon
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7/15/2010 5:02 PM
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Hi All, I’m looking into hiring - or possibly even trying to buy, a PC or Mac system that will run Capture visualisation smoothly for pre programming an upcoming show. It'll need to run approx 150 generic fixture, 20- 30 moving fixtures, plus LED battens within a venue drawing and associated surfaces effecting light. Can any of you offer advice on realistic processor, graphics card and memory spec for either PC or Mac that you have experience of being stable? Many thanks for your time. .
Lars Wernlund
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7/21/2010 9:34 AM
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Hi Simon,

This is really difficult to spec as it also comes down to the complexity of the stage and display resolution you will be using. That said, what you should focus on is the graphics card! Even with the simplest machine, putting in a 300€ graphics card is sufficient for most jobs! We recommend NVidia-based cards, such as the GTX 2xx and 4xx cards.

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Simon
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7/21/2010 12:38 PM
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Hi Lars, Many thanks for your reply; the graphics card tip is very useful. I'm hoping other users may also add specs of systems they're using as a cross section of systems in use out there, but appreciate the difficulty in committing to a reasonable spec suitable for all applications. PS Do you advise AMD or Intel processors or both are fully compatible? PPS Any advice on minimum system memory and speed? Regards, Simon
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7/22/2010 9:16 AM
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Hi Simon,

AMD or Intel are both fully compatible, will not make any difference. As for minimum memory, just follow the minimum memory requirement of Windows. Speed - nothing special really, anything above 2 GHz is definately enough.


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11/25/2010 2:26 PM
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Personally I would pick the GTX460 Hawk from MSI, or a GTX470 from EVGA.
The Hawk uses top-spec components which make for a very good graphics card. If you want to cash out a bit more, get a GTX470 Superclocked. Same price as a normal GTX470 but higher clockspeeds

For CPU I would definately stick with Intel. Preferably on a good Gigabyte Motherboard. A CPU like the i5-750 will be plenty fine :)
Simon
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11/25/2010 6:24 PM
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In the end i went for a Novatech iConquer which was £620 and in stock, which seems to run pretty well and could be upgraded with more RAM, an i7 chip and the 480GTX later on if needed. Spec is: Intel Core i5 760 CPU, 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM and GeForce GTX 460 1024MB