Post by Dragon Man on Mar 7, 2021 14:05:40 GMT
I was fed up with my 14 year old sluggish HP Pavilion laptop. It sucks at Astro work so I finally made the decision to upgrade.
For general use I have a separate Laptop which is also too underpowered for Astro work so I decided to build a Desktop from scratch for Astrophotography/Video Astronomy which will be permanently housed in the observatory.
I ordered the Desktop to be built with specific requirements rather than their off-the-shelf machines. None of their off-the-shelf stuff had what I wanted, so I had my son help design exactly what I need (he is a computer guru).
I needed something to handle large file downloads from imaging in Raw, while running Autoguiding, and driving the mount by Cartes du Ciel.
It would also be nice to stack in Registax or Sequator during an imaging capture session, or run Photoshop, and also surf the net while waiting for images to capture
I ended up with a fairly affordable but powerful set up that can run everything simultaneously and display 3 monitors
Here's what I got:
- CoolerMaster CMP-501 case with cooled 600w power supply
- Gigabyte B450M H Motherboard
- AMD Ryzen5 3600 w/ Wraith Stealth
- Nvidia GeForce GT10 Graphics
- Adata XPG SX8200 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD 256GB
- Team T-Force Dark Z 16GB 3200MHz CL16 DDR4 Grey
- Edimax V2 Wireless N300
and it easily runs all these at the same time:
3 x Lenovo L22e-20 21.5" monitors
BackyardEOS
ToupSky
Cartes du Ciel
Synscan Wifi (via Samsung S10)
PhotoShop 2020 v21
PHD2
Sequator stacking software or Registax4
Canon 450d DSLR
2 Touptek USB cameras
Professional Studio Microphone
plus I also have plugged in and running 2 external USB fans and External 2TB Hard Drive.
The company I used is based in Melbourne Australia, and they built it and shipped it extremely fast!!!I ordered it around Midnight on Sunday night, and it was at my door on Wednesday Morning
To give them a well earned plug their name is 'PC Case Gear' HERE
As I image I send all the Raw Images to a 2TB external HDD so I don't clog up the internal SSD.
There is no need for a huge SSD in a PC as it is cheap to buy huge external storage devices these days.
If you fill up an external HDD (which will take a verrrrry long time, if ever) just plug in another one
For general use I have a separate Laptop which is also too underpowered for Astro work so I decided to build a Desktop from scratch for Astrophotography/Video Astronomy which will be permanently housed in the observatory.
I ordered the Desktop to be built with specific requirements rather than their off-the-shelf machines. None of their off-the-shelf stuff had what I wanted, so I had my son help design exactly what I need (he is a computer guru).
I needed something to handle large file downloads from imaging in Raw, while running Autoguiding, and driving the mount by Cartes du Ciel.
It would also be nice to stack in Registax or Sequator during an imaging capture session, or run Photoshop, and also surf the net while waiting for images to capture
I ended up with a fairly affordable but powerful set up that can run everything simultaneously and display 3 monitors
Here's what I got:
- CoolerMaster CMP-501 case with cooled 600w power supply
- Gigabyte B450M H Motherboard
- AMD Ryzen5 3600 w/ Wraith Stealth
- Nvidia GeForce GT10 Graphics
- Adata XPG SX8200 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD 256GB
- Team T-Force Dark Z 16GB 3200MHz CL16 DDR4 Grey
- Edimax V2 Wireless N300
and it easily runs all these at the same time:
3 x Lenovo L22e-20 21.5" monitors
BackyardEOS
ToupSky
Cartes du Ciel
Synscan Wifi (via Samsung S10)
PhotoShop 2020 v21
PHD2
Sequator stacking software or Registax4
Canon 450d DSLR
2 Touptek USB cameras
Professional Studio Microphone
plus I also have plugged in and running 2 external USB fans and External 2TB Hard Drive.
The company I used is based in Melbourne Australia, and they built it and shipped it extremely fast!!!I ordered it around Midnight on Sunday night, and it was at my door on Wednesday Morning
To give them a well earned plug their name is 'PC Case Gear' HERE
As I image I send all the Raw Images to a 2TB external HDD so I don't clog up the internal SSD.
There is no need for a huge SSD in a PC as it is cheap to buy huge external storage devices these days.
If you fill up an external HDD (which will take a verrrrry long time, if ever) just plug in another one