[Skimmertalk] CPU for Skimmerserver

Timothy Coker n6win73 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 11:57:56 EST 2012


>From W6 here are some notes that I took between June and July of 2012. The
usage percentage should go up during the fall and winter season here.

CPU usage of CW Skimmer Server on an XP machine using a E6600 (Core 2 Dual
CPU @2.4 Ghz) with 4GB DDR2 800 is 34% average at 192khz 6 bands.

CPU usage of CW Skimmer Server on an XP machine using a Q6600 (Core 2 Quad
CPU @2.4 Ghz) with 4GB DDR2 800 is 18% average at 192khz 6 bands.

CPU usage of CW Skimmer Server on an Win7 machine using an i5-2500K (Quad
CPU @3.30 Ghz) with 16GB DDR3 1600 is 7.5% average at 192khz 6 bands. (Just
built this one for W6PH)

During contest weekends the CPU usage goes up to 28% from 18% on my Q6600
semi-dedicated Skimmer machine. During Field Day my father's E4400 dual
core ~2.1Ghz machine used ~50% CPU resources.

I have been contesting during CQ WW CW and ARRL SS CW using the XP Q6600
machine with Skimmer and Win-test running without issues.

73,

Tim / N6WIN
http://www.n6win.com

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:57 PM, <marcelo at alternex.com.br> wrote:

>
>
> Hi everyoneThis is my first post here in skimmertalk.I´ve
> just got 2 QS1R receivers to use as Skimmer servers. One will be
> installedin South
> Brazil, with a fast i7 PC.I plan to setup the other one at my remote
> station, and since it will share thecabinet space with all my other stuff
> I need a
> small, energy efficient andpowerful computer. Ok, I know this is a
> difficult
> task.I am absolutely novice to skimmerserver, so my question is, is
> something as thisone in the link below powerful enough to decode 96kHz on 7
> bands?
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002Thanks for
> the help!Marcelo, PY1KN
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