MineralMike
Well-known member
I'm looking for a different PC to run PI, since my AMD FX-8310 with Windows 8.1 gives me a "program has stopped working" error every time I exit PI.
A while back, Juan posted,
"Since version 1.8.7, PixInsight for FreeBSD, Linux and macOS requires a processor with SSE4.2 instruction support. This excludes AMD processors launched before 2011 (Bulldozer micro-architecture)"
And,
"...Kubuntu 18.04 LTS...GNOME also works well, but KDE provides a much better integration of bundled PixInsight projects."
"...one of the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper (third generation) or AMD Ryzen 9 processors."
It's unlikely I'll ever see one of those CPUs, but Linux is an option. The replacement PC would have 32GM of RAM and a SSD of at least 500GB.
Questions:
* Does an Intel i7 CPU meet the PI requirements?
* Is Linux preferred over Windows 10 Pro?
It would be great to go with a top-shelf computer, but I need to look at mid-range instead.
Thanks for all insights and advice.
--- Mike
A while back, Juan posted,
"Since version 1.8.7, PixInsight for FreeBSD, Linux and macOS requires a processor with SSE4.2 instruction support. This excludes AMD processors launched before 2011 (Bulldozer micro-architecture)"
And,
"...Kubuntu 18.04 LTS...GNOME also works well, but KDE provides a much better integration of bundled PixInsight projects."
"...one of the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper (third generation) or AMD Ryzen 9 processors."
It's unlikely I'll ever see one of those CPUs, but Linux is an option. The replacement PC would have 32GM of RAM and a SSD of at least 500GB.
Questions:
* Does an Intel i7 CPU meet the PI requirements?
* Is Linux preferred over Windows 10 Pro?
It would be great to go with a top-shelf computer, but I need to look at mid-range instead.
Thanks for all insights and advice.
--- Mike