PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 February 2015 Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Purpose This document shows the PC configuration recommendation for Hamamatsu ORCAFlash4.0 (C11440-22CU or C11440-42U) with Hamamatsu imaging software HCImage. • Notice – Various conditions not described in this document could result in performance inconsistent with that which is described within this document. PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 2 Single Camera with Camera Link (C11440-22CU) Items Recommended Brand / Model Dell PrecisionTM Tower 5810 Workstation CPU Intel Xeon E5-1630 v3 OS Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 Professional 64-bit RAM 32 GB or more Frame Grabber Active Silicon AS-FBD-1XCLD-2PE8 installed in SLOT1_PCIe3x8 or SLOT4_PCIe3x16 Drivers DCAM-API v14.12 or later • To achieve full 100 fps speed recording at max resolution and max 25,000+ fps speed at small regions. • These BIOS settings may need to be adjusted: – Disable (uncheck) SpeedStep and C-State under the Performance section. – Enable (check) Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading under the Performance section. PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 3 Single Camera with USB 3.0 (C11440-22CU or C11440-42U) Items Recommended Brand / Model Dell PrecisionTM Tower 5810 Workstation CPU Intel Xeon E5-1630 v3 OS Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 Professional 64-bit RAM 8 GB or more Interface card IOI Technology U3-PCIE1XG202P1-10 installed in SLOT3_PCIe2x1 Drivers DCAM-API v14.12 or later • To achieve full 30 fps speed recording at max resolution and max 25,000+ fps speed at small regions. • These BIOS settings may need to be adjusted: – Disable (uncheck) SpeedStep and C-State under the Performance section. – Enable (check) Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading under the Performance section. PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 4 Recommended DIY PC configuration for Single Camera Camera Interface Camera Link USB 3.0 Note CPU Intel Xeon E5-2643 or better We recommend you use at least a single 3.2Ghz Quad (or more) Core High End CPU with a CPU Mark equal or higher than the E5-2643 from this benchmark table: High End CPU's - Intel vs AMD Frequency is more important than the number of CPU cores. OS Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 Professional 64-bit 32-bit Edition is not good because of performance and memory size. RAM 32 GB or more 8 GB or more Free Slot PCIe2(3) x8 wired PCIe2(3) BIOS Latest PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 DDR3 1333Mhz or higher-speed PCIe Gen2 is mandatory but Gen3 should cover Gen2. PCIe slot performance sometimes is improved in the latest BIOS. Configure if applicable / possible: 1. Disable Processor C-state control to force C0 state for all processors. 2. Enable Intel Turbo Boost. 3. Disable Intel SpeedStep if allowed with Turbo Boost Enabled. Enable Turbo Boost may mutually exclude disabling SpeedStep. 4. Enable Intel Hyper-Threading. 5 Storage Size vs. Number of Recorded Images Number of Recorded Images1 30 fps 3 100 fps 3 8 GB 1024 34 sec 10 sec 16 GB 2048 68 sec ( ~1 min ) 20 sec 32 GB 4096 136 sec ( ~2 min ) 40 sec 64 GB 8192 273 sec ( ~4 min ) 81 sec ( ~1 min ) 128 GB 16384 546 sec ( ~9 min ) 163 sec ( ~2 min ) 256 GB 32768 1092 sec ( ~18 min ) 327 sec ( ~5 min ) 512 GB 65536 2184 sec ( ~36 min ) 655 sec ( ~10 min ) 1 TB 131072 4369 sec ( ~72 min ) 1310 sec ( ~21 min ) Free space Time 2 (Approx.) 1. In case of 1x1 binning, full size. 2. Numbers are rounded down. 3. Depends on storage writing speed and application writing to storage performance. Writing frame rate is sometimes slower than camera capturing speed. PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 6 Dell PrecisionTM Tower 5810 Workstation Slot Configuration SLOT1_PCIe3x8 SLOT3_PCIe2x1 SLOT4_PCIe3x16 PC Recommendation for ORCA-Flash4.0 7