Lab Computer recommendations.

[Emir Efendic]

Hello,

thanks for your advice, you are very helpful. We uncovered an old room with 
two CRT's; it was bliss.
Best,
Emir

On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:24:41 PM UTC+8, Michiel Sovijärvi-Spapé wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My 2p:
>
> ·         Get a CRT anyway and let all of us know where you can still 
> find these precious machines!
>
> ·         For E-Prime, I have not found much use of any graphics card 
> apart from the on-board ones. The point is that a lot of it goes to gaming 
> stuff, like keeping textures in memory and rendering them quickly on a 3d 
> plane, or fancy visual effects, like blurring and the Vista/Win7 glass 
> effects. Timing wise, I suspect my 1 GB win xp machine with cheap video 
> card in the lab can probably beat quite a few “modern lab computers”, with 
> experiments. 
>
>  
>
> To get the shiny stuff, maybe you can convince people you’ll do lots of 
> online matlabs processing for BCIs, use 3D engines, explore virtual 
> reality, and so on. My suggestion is to keep your old equipment as well – 
> it’s particularly useful to do “old-school” experiments on a very clean 
> computer especially if it comes to critically timed EEG recordings. 
>
> Hope that helps. 
>
> Best,
>
> Michiel
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* e-p... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:
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> *Subject:* Re: Lab Computer recommendations.
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>  
>
> I agree, but the people paying like to see shiny new stuff :) 
>
> Do you have any recommendation about graphics or computer components?
>
>
> On Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:02:27 AM UTC+8, Peter Quain wrote:
>
> If you want timing accuracy keep your old CRTs (if you have any). Large, 
> ugly, but no onboard image processing.  
>
>  
>
> *From:* e-p... at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-p... at googlegroups.com] *On 
> Behalf Of *Emir Efendic
> *Sent:* Thursday, 20 March 2014 6:55 AM
> *To:* e-p... at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Lab Computer recommendations.
>
>  
>
> Hello,
>
> We are looking to buy new computers in the lab, along with monitors. We 
> mostly use them for priming experiments and cognitive experiments so timing 
> and graphics issues are of the essence. We are especially looking to buy a 
> top of the line monitor with a high refresh rate. Since I am not very 
> knowledgeable in this area I was wondering what sort of recommendations, if 
> any, you have for me. We also do some light programming in Visual Studio 
> and Matlab. My questions specifically pertain to: is it necessary to have a 
> high performance, external graphics card and what monitors should we be 
> looking at (obviously no CRT's since we are obliged to buy new ones)?
>
> Any sort of help would be much appreciated.
> Thank You!
>
> Emir Efendic
> PhD. Student
> UniBordeaux
> UniSarajevo  
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