In my experience Intel-platform works better with DCP-encoding than AMD. The more threads and frequency - the better. Also you need fast hard-drive - often it is the bottleneck. DoM does not use much RAM, so 4Gb you'll be enough but 8 or more is better Best regards, Igor Voytovich  6 июля 2017, 22:27:21, от "J-sun Bailey via DCPomatic" <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net>et>: The Desktop PC that we use to run DCP-o-matic just died (smoke started pouring out of it actually) does anyone have recommendations on PC specifications, or a make/model that they've had good luck with?  Thanks in Advance J-sun Bailey _______________________________________________ DCPomatic mailing list DCPomatic(a)carlh.net http://main.carlh.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dcpomatic

What type of CPU did your existing PC contain? How much roughly are you planing to spend? I would love to see some results of the new AMD Ryzen CPUs. If anyone reading this is already using a Ryzen machine, please perform the ‚official‘ benchmarks with the latest stable release (2.10.5) and post the results (log files to Carl). http://dcpomatic.com/benchmarks/ <http://dcpomatic.com/benchmarks/> In general, the more hardware threads (cores*HT), the better. Usually, DCP-o-matic results scale neatly with CPU passmark: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html <https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html> I usually recommend a second hand dual CPU xeon machine (e.g. HP z600/z620 with dual six core 5660/5670/5675). Great price (from 500-600US$ up for a working system), very solid, easy to get on ebay. Dual CPU/many cores gives you the most bang for the buck. These machines may not be the fastest for gaming or single threaded applications, but DOM runs very efficient on them. - Carsten