Re: recommendation for a new computer for image analysis

Posted by Mario Emmenlauer-3 on Feb 21, 2011; 9:52am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/recommendation-for-a-new-computer-for-image-analysis-tp3685590p3685593.html

Hi Ron,

my recommendation is: get as much RAM as you can. With large datasets,
CPU is typically not the first bottleneck, any newer Core i7 or Xeon or
AMD will do ok. But its very good if you can have a full dataset in RAM
in floating point precision, and some software requires a second copy
for temp. computations etc. 16 GB of RAM are usually good, and newer
Desktops can do 24GB.

Cheers,

    Mario

> Hi all,
>
> We would like to purchase a new computer that will be used mainly for
> image
> analysis.
> We use it for tracking cells and usually the movies are very heavy.
>
> Any recommendation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
>