I finally did it!…It put a hole in my pocket, but I’ll patch it back up!
Before:
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After:
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Finally taking full advantage of PixInsight and what its’ plug-ins offer! Well worth the money for my hobby!😊😊😊
What does yours look like?
C&DS!
Terrance
nice setup! What GPUs are you using?
I built mine with Ryzen 7950x + 64GB RAM + RTX 3090. Purchased it for a different purpose, but using it for processing now.
Happy with what it could do.
Thanks Deepan!…I’m using AMD Radeon Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
Very similar to mine . 9950X Proart Mobo, 96 Ram and 4080. Plenty quick.
Congratulations! This is a very similar setup to my own.
I will say that even at 64GiB, you may see some swap space usage if you’re stacking l lot (even more-so if you shoot full frame). Keep an eye on swap space usage and you may end up with an excuse to bump that 64 up to 96/128!
Congratulations on the new rig I am using this for processing.
Ryzen 9
RXT 5058
96 GB DDR 5 RAM
4x SSD scratch drives,
3 × 2 TB NVME
1× 8 TB NAS
Water cooled
Over clocked to 5.5 GHz very very fast !
At the mount I have a Beelink SER5 i7 32 GB RAM and for the cloud sensor all sky camera ect I have a Beek link s12 Pro N100 lake 16 GB
This is my processing rig… upgraded from a Mac mini:
Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 28 cores and 96GB RAM.
Files are on a 32TB Thunderbolt RAID 5 with a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD as scratch.
WBPP takes about 6-8 seconds for a night of shooting for just calibrating with flats and darks. Full 200 sub RGBSHO stack, registration, integration, and plate solving probably takes about 40-60 minutes depending on whether I drizzle…. versus 5-6 hours on the mini.
Love it, 5 out of 5 stars, would buy again.
Mine is a
AMD 9950X3D, 64Gb 6000mhz Ram and an RTX4090. 2 x 4TB gen 5 NVME Drives.
Upgrade to this a couple of months back.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
64 GB (4 × 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2
Kingston 500gb SSD for boot drive
I don’t remember brand 4tb HDD - this is the drive I work off of for Pixinsight. A bit slower maybe, but I don’t mind
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Video Card
Corsair RM850 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Samsung Odyssey G9 49.0" 5120 x 1440 240 Hz Curved Monitor
I use it for gaming as well and have been itching to upgrade, but I know in reality it’s not worth it. I think I’ll wait for AMDs next gen of CPUs before I do anything. So a year or two yet.
My system is about 6 years old but it still works fine …..
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Built this last year (also include 2×2TB Samsung SSDs, I have also 2×1TB external disks for ‘archive’ from before):
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Super happy with it - maybe RAM was an overkill (and I can’t run it at full speed, I lowered it to 5 or 5.3 GHz) but I am still happy with it :)
Upgraded to a new PC beginning of the year. PixInsight processing time was reduced significantly.
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Finally put together a new system with focus on PI. Ryzen 9950X, 96GB of 6000Mhz RAM, RTX 5060 16GB DDR7 GPU, and a primary Samsung 2TB 9100 Pro NVMe. Very happy with it! However, thinking about changing out to a 5080 series GPU when prices drop.
Nice! 5090 with a 9950X3d and 128GB of RAM.
TiffsAndAstro · Aug 31, 2025, 11:31 AM
Does an 11 year old oc 6600k 32gb ram 1070fe count as new?
Still processes 533 sized images fine…
It’s still not drinking age so new enough XD
Your setup is similar to my old rig (6700K, 32gb ram, GTX1080), I decided I needed an upgrade when I realize that my aquisition computer would stack faster…
Currently using Ryzen9 7950X3D, 98gb ram, RTX4070TS.
Going from a 4 cores cpu to 16cores made quite the difference.
I’m using a liquid cooled i9 14900K 128 Gb of ram and 12 Tb of Samsung 990 Pro storage, coupled with an Nvidia RTX 4090 with 24 Gb. Had it about 18 months and it does me nicely. Bought it as a geostatistical modelling computer, but it’s not too shabby at stacking and editing.
Need another 4 Tb NVM2!!! 😢
Ryzen 9 9950×
128Gb DDR5
RTX 5080
1×1tb nVME - boot - OS and Apps
2×2tb nVME - raid 0 - PI working directories and temp
2×10tb SATA - RAID1 - Storage of raw data and finals once processed