{"id":2132,"date":"2024-01-20T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2024-01-20T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T21:01:13","slug":"great-desktop-computer-for-working-with-pixinsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"Great desktop computer for working with PixInsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2133\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-937x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-1406x1536.jpg 1406w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter-1200x1311.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pooter.jpg 1831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>I recently replaced an i7 computer I bought new 6 years ago with a new<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3u2UzZm\">Lenovo Legion T5 Tower Gaming Desktop Computer &#8211; AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core 4.50 GHz Processor, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Pro<\/a> that I got on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>After setting it up to also be my daily driver computer, I did a test. Stacking WBPP in PixInsight, 10 hours of OSC shots of the Lion Nebula I shot months ago, 250 mm (RedCat 51 with ZWO ASI2600MC). Used highest settings in WBPP.<\/p>\n<p>On the new Lenovo Legion T5 the WBPP stacking took 1 hour 40 min.<\/p>\n<p>On the old computer, it took 7 hours<\/p>\n<p>Also with this better graphics card, using BlurX, StarX, and NoiseX went from minutes to seconds. (I inserted this line;<br \/>\n<code>https:\/\/www.rc-astro.com\/TensorFlow\/PixInsight\/GPU\/<\/code><br \/>\ninto PixInsight PixInsight Resources \/ Updates \/ Manage Updates and it automatically configured everything)<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this computer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Lion Neb after stacking, processing, star reduction, and output: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2135\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-768x972.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-1214x1536.jpg 1214w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb-1200x1518.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/LionNEb.jpg 1619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently replaced an i7 computer I bought new 6 years ago with a new Lenovo Legion T5 Tower Gaming Desktop Computer &#8211; AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core 4.50 GHz Processor, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Pro that I got on Amazon. After setting it up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=2132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great desktop computer for working with PixInsight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}