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Question about NIS-Elements on PC Performance

Anish S
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Hello LTT fans! My name is Anish and I work in a research lab where we use the NIS-Elements imaging software from Nikon for use with our microscopes. When doing cell counting, the computer we have takes a long time between adjustments to recount cells, and I was just wondering if NIS-Elements was more of a CPU or GPU bound software, as I am suggesting doing a PC upgrade and want to know what would be the best use of our resources. Right now we have a computer running Windows 7, with a Xeon processor (not sure what it is, but it's from 2009 is all I remember) and 32 GB ram.

 

I understand that this is a very niche topic for me to ask, but all input is welcome 🙂

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38 minutes ago, Anish S said:

Hello LTT fans! My name is Anish and I work in a research lab where we use the NIS-Elements imaging software from Nikon for use with our microscopes. When doing cell counting, the computer we have takes a long time between adjustments to recount cells, and I was just wondering if NIS-Elements was more of a CPU or GPU bound software, as I am suggesting doing a PC upgrade and want to know what would be the best use of our resources. Right now we have a computer running Windows 7, with a Xeon processor (not sure what it is, but it's from 2009 is all I remember) and 32 GB ram.

 

I understand that this is a very niche topic for me to ask, but all input is welcome 🙂

..um..I know what cell counting is…  Gotta be faster than doing it with a little digital counter in your fist while staring through microscope loupes like my dad did.  That looked like a horrible job.  This sounds like a question for Nikon.  Specifically the division in Nikon that wrote the software if they didn’t just hire it out. In any event Nikon will know who to talk to to get your answer.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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Considering the software recommendations for newest version suggest Quatro from 2017, I would say it's more CPU bound for the tasks you are using it to. GPUs are made for rendering images. And you didn't say what GPU your current system has.

 

But as you said, this is niche like most other scientific research methods. You can probably get better answers from reaching out to others doing similar research and asking their experiences.

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