PC Recommendation

[avega]

Hello,

I am looking for recommendation for  a decent and good priced  PC that we will use for development. We are using labVIEW 2017 and 2018.

[RTSLVU]

System Requirements for LabVIEW Development Systems and Modules

[Gregory · Accepted solution]

I think you can do a bit better than a Pentium 4 and 1GB of RAM these days 😉

If you get a decent processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 1080p screen you should be good for most things. If you want to hook up hardware, make sure you get something with a bunch of ports.

[crossrulz]

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@avega wrote:

I am looking for recommendation for  a decent and good priced  PC that we will use for development. We are using LabVIEW 2017 and 2018.

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For test systems, I have often gone with Super Logics.  I would also recommend Stealth (apparently now part of Sparton RE).

[Rahulbala]

Hello

If you are going to use multiple versions of labview, go for atleast 8 GB of RAM, i3/i5 latest gen. processor and a 1080p monitor for sure and it also depends on the number of toolkits you are going to use.

-Rahul

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[RTSLVU]

Honestly you don't need anything special for LabVIEW development.

Any of today's typical desktop systems will be fine.

My current development PC is a Dell (My company only buys Dell) i5 16GB RAM on-board Intel graphics and it's just fine.

Up until about three months ago I was using an older i5 with 8GB RAM and I really see no difference beyond the loading time is faster on my new computer because it has a SSD.

[avega]

Thank you.

[RTSLVU]

The thing about getting lots of ports in your accepted solution is a mute point.

I find it better to buy "off the shelf" computers for our ATE systems and use USB based GPIB, serial, MODBUS, Etc. interfaces.

This way if a computer dies for whatever reason I can replace it with any "standard issue" PC my company is buying.

Returning  the ATE system to service much faster than having to special order some non-standard build and wait for it.