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Weather Station Hardware => Boltek/NexStorm Lightning Detectors => Topic started by: morfeas2002 on March 22, 2016, 10:25:54 AM
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I am interested in buying the boltek stormtracker pci radar and i want to know what are the minimum pc requirements that it works perfect, without problems. (processor, graphics card and memory).
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One thing I noticed is that it is a full height PCI card which won't fit in a regular desktop cabinet. One exception is that some of the Dells I have one of them had a sideways card cage insert that allows a full height card to be inserted but at the same time the card cage adapter blocks the PCIe port and I think the AGP port as well. It is easier just to get a mini-tower pc .
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It is my second pc. It is a full tower with plenty of space. It is a Pentium 4 at 2.4, with 128 video graphic card and 1 gb ram. System is windows 7. Will it do the job?
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It is very likely that you have more than enough horsepower for the card and basic software.
If you plan on using some of the fully integrated offerings to display, then I can't speak for sure. I would say yes, but with 1 meg and a pent 2 running XP and doing ok, I'd think that it would be sufficient.
Do you have a card and antenna? I might have one around here I'm not using.
Dale
K9ELD
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PC also runs weatherlink for my Davis Vantage Pro2 and a Logitech 905c webcam.
I was ready to buy a used one. You have p.m.
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Mine is running on a headless Intel D525 Atom system (http://www.stadhaugh.com/toys/Bilbo.html) with w2k as the OS and, I think 2 gig of memory. IOW: it doesn't need much.