Hi there,

I am going around getting some information about processing and hardware and wanted to know what to aim for, for an optimal processing hardware.

For that I would prefer to stay away from mac - and I am thinking of a machine that is optimized for opengl - and video processing - sound hasn't been an issue for me - I simply use a quite decent sound card and never had problem.

What are the best video card available for processing on linux ? Is nVidia the way to go ? Is there problem with some card ?

On the architecture level - is 32bit to be afraid of ? is 64 bit useless or needed ? Does processing makes good use of Quad core or dual core - or focusing on single cpu is the best idea ? A lot of time processing need other software (like pureData) to have a better foundation for a certain task - if that is taken in consideration - how would that affect the choice of CPU ?

What is the most important piece to consider in building the perfect linux processing machine - the quantity of ram? the power of the GPU? the processor power?

And how important is the real time kernel in linux ? I saw a massive change from ubuntu to puredyne and wonder how this affect processing.

Anyway - this is meant mostly for opening the discussion and see what has been done before - I am preparing a presentation in September and would like to build the computer exclusively to boost processing (and with a bit of pure data )

thanks