New PC: biggest bang for the buck?

[jerryyyyy]

Well, here is the latest Dell Precision Workstation Laptop:  the M3800

Windows 7; 16gb RAM; 512 GB SSD; I7 Quad processor... 3200x1800 display... OhLaLa

[georg.viehoever]

And what are the PI performance values? See previous posts for a possible benchmark.
Georg

[pfile]

http://www.astrofoto.es/Benchmark

[Zocky]

When I try to open M74 file, PI returns some errors. M74_parallel works fine.
What causes this errors?

[jerryyyyy]

http://www.astrofoto.es/Benchmark

8.438 s

and

4.525 s

[georg.viehoever]

I tested my trusted old laptop with the current 1.08.01.1083 with Benchmark_M74_parallel.psm: 20.66 seconds. So at least for this rather old dual core system on Win7x64, the recent PI version does not show any performance improvement. Tests with old version in http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1052.msg10534#msg10534 .
Georg

[jerryyyyy]

It appears to have run both versions on the M3800.  I applied to the downloaded image and they both ran.  The regular was 8s and the parallel was 4s.  It runs fast to my eye. 

[Gardner Gerry]

Very interesting thread! Next time I buy new computers I'll buy faster processors. Still, I downloaded and ran the benchmarks

I have the latest PixInsight build 01.08.01.1087 Ripley(x64) on both machines

my desktop is Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz 8GB RAM 64 bit Win 7 Home Premium

13.31 s and 8.13 s

laptop Intel Core i5 2450M @2.50GHz 6GB RAM 64 bit Win 7 Professional

11.09 s and 7.38 s

While I am not unhappy with either of my systems performance, any tips from users to speed things up would be welcome. 

[diurnal]

parallel
7.741 s

benchmark
12.87 s

amd 6 core fx 6100 3.3ghz
16gb ram
windows 7
thats the best data ive opened up

[jerryyyyy]

Nice data.  Looks like I am doing alright for a laptop.   

[Peter]

Zocky's question is the same effect I an having running the regular file but when using the parallel psm file profile explorer reads file and then declares zero icons loaded. Unless my computer is taking over three hours to go through the file what is happening?

[diurnal]

i think what's happening is some of the processes are outdated, so they dont load up. i got an error too, but it ran anyway without those processes.

[Peter]

Had a quick look at my process icons after profile explorer read that it had to rename some process icons as there were compatibility problems. I now have atrouswaveletransform v1 as well as the original process. In the V1 named icon there are no pop up prompts so I need to know if the benchmark psm file is corrupted or not suitable for older 4 year laptops running a dual core processor? Also how do I rid the program of this renamed process icon?

[Peter]

Thanks Diurnal, I guess you may be right and I have also come to the same conclusion. But if that is the case then why is this post still active?

[tom886]

Sorry for bringing that old topic up again, but I didn't wanna start a new thread
I have a AMD PC with an FX-4100 CPU (3.6GHz, Quad-Core) and 8GB RAM.
PixInsight is running pretty smooth however I am considering to upgrade my CPU and/or RAM to 16GB.
Of course not both at the same time, so what would be the better benefit for PI.
Upgrade to an Octa-Core CPU (8 cores) or upgrade first the RAM to 16GB
OS is Windows 8.1 x64.

CS
Tom