pc recommendation

elan

hi 
is any one have recommendation  of pc that can work with the 6700 /6500?
i thinking to buy it from Amazon UK AMD OR I7?
my pc with ASROCK stop working with freeze issue may be it is hardware issue . however today the pc are so cheep so any one please 
many thanks 
73 elan g0uut

Steve K9ZW

Hi Elan G0UUT

The SmartSDR page at http://www.flexradio.com/amateur-products/flex-6000-signature-series/smartsdr/ has a "Requirements" tab that lists what you need.

As Amazon.co.uk offers different stuff than Amazon.com (USA) a recommendation isn't going to be very useful.

Perhaps you can check with some of the other UK based SmartSDR guys for locally available machine recommendations?

If I recollect well my first UK built computer was a Ferranti Argos-Pro dual bootable as either a CP/M or MSDos machine.   Perhaps there is one still running at the Bletchley Park museum, but that puppy won't do SmartSDR!!

73

Steve

K9ZW

dlwarnberg

Couple additional things I can recommend..
1) do yourself a favor and get a pc with a SSD (solid state drive)  
2) make sure it's capable of multiple monitors. 

I'm always an advocate to "build your own" but I know some are not comfortable with that.  Yes you can get cheap PC these days, but most will skimp somewhere.  In my years of building PC's I highly recommend an Intel processor, AMD's are fine but I have seem instances where there are issues so why take the chance.  Make sure you get a good high quality video card and plenty of RAM (memory).

I'm currently running the following and have had zero issues:
Intel i5-4750 processor
16 GB RAM
twin 500 GB Samsung SSD (Evo 850's)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Video Card
3 (yes three) HP pavillion 22bw IPS LED Monitors
OS is windows 10

I can concurrently run:
SmartSDR (4 slices, 2 SSB, 2 digital)
SmartSDR CAT
DAX
DDutil
Log4OM
WSJT-X (first digital slice)
JTAlert
FLDIGI (second digital slice)

I've also ran DM780 (not full Ham Radio Deluxe as I prefer DDutil to be interface)

Good Luck

David
KK4QOE

elan

thank you for the info i may thinking to use macair or imac dont know what you think ?
73 elan g0uut

dlwarnberg

Well... with a MAC you are going to need an intermediary software program, such as parallels or VMware or something along those lines.  All SmartSDR software is currently only written to run under the windows operating system.  With VMware the video is not that good so keep that in mind..  SmartSDR is very much a visual radio interface which is the big advantage.. I can "see" interference and quickly apply a filter to mask the noise so I don't hear it.

Ron

The advantage of Abroham Neal is the on-line and phone support.  I can't say enough good about Neal's hardware, value and help with Flex 6700!

Ron

   

YV5WZ

My "Build your Own" PC

Gigabyte G5 Motherboard ( creative audio sound card included)
Intel I7  4.4Ghz
32 Gb dram III Corsair Memory
500 GB Samsung SSD (Evo 850)
4TB WB Black Hard Disk
Video Card Radeo R9 380 4Gb GDDR5
WIFI 8260  & Bluetooth 4.2 Gigabyte Card 
(05) Five Cooler Master Jet Flo 120 fan
850 Watts Corsair Power Suppy


All just for move my Flex-6300 / Elecraft KAT500 / Elecraft KPA500..... guess I was ...maybe ...exaggerated........but.......I'm happy my radio and software move smoothly...


Greetings!!


George
YV5WZ

    

Ross - K9COX

I use a five year old HP with a AMD Athlon II X4 3 GHz processor and 8 GB ram. Don't use a SSD drive since SmartSDR uses no disk access while operating and don't mind a few extra seconds to boot up. Computer was on sale five years ago for about $350 at Staples.

DrTeeth

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