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Basic PC Operating Environment Recommendation
Machine
PC/AT compatible - Pentium 4 type
CPU
Intel
R
Pentium 4
R
, 1.3 GHz or more [Hyper-threading 2.6 GHz or higher recommended.]
Chipset
Intel
R
i845
*
, i850
*
, i865
*
, i875
*
[i865 or after recommended]
RAM
512 MB or more [PC2700/PC3200 dual-channel DDR recommended]
HDD
Free space 500 MB or more
Graphic
Graphic RAM 16 MB or more
Graphic card of the AGP specification, capable of 32-bit color display of 1280 x 1024 or more
PCI bus
PCI Rev. 2.1 or 2.2
OS
Windows XP Professional or 2000 Professional
Drive
CD-ROM (or CD-R/RW, etc.)
Main body
Full-size PCI board compatible (See 2 below.)
Power supply
250 W or more (with CE marking)
1. PC model
<PC/AT compatible machine>: The PC should meet the above specifications. The recommended models are as follows:
DELL PRECISION series.
2. PCI interface board size
The PC should be a tower, middle-tower or desktop model capable of accepting a full-size PCI board. The board space
requirement is PCI Rev. 2.1 “full size x 1” + “half size x 1”.
(The slot for inserting the PCI board and a half-size space of the adjacent slot are required.)
The adjacent slot can be used to mount the trigger IO board.
3. CPU
Olympus does not guarantee operation if the PC uses a CPU other than Pentium 4 or a chipset other than an Intel
chipset.
4. PCI board installation in other slots
The PCI board can be used simultaneously with an SCSI card or LAN card.
It cannot be used simultaneously with the Video Capture card (because this occupies the PCI bus).
5. HD free space
The HD free space refers to the space that does not cause a special problem even when the system is installed or run.
The space required for saving an image file in the HDD is slightly more than 1.4 MB with a 1360 x 1024-pixel (8-bit)
non-compressed image. In consequence, the HDD should also provide a considerably large space for saving these
image files.
When recording a movie using an HDD stack, about 20 MB (at maximum) of HDD space is required per second and the
movie recording time is restricted according to the capacity remaining on the HDD.
6. Temporary movie save in the RAM
When the [Record till temporary memory is full] checkbox is checked on the DP Controller, a space of 70 MB is reserved
as the movie area in the physical memory. However, remember that about 20 MB (at maximum) of space per second
is necessary for recording a movie.
7. Graphic card
The maximum frame rate for the image (15 frames/sec.) may not be assured depending on the performance of the
graphic card used.
8. It is not permitted to install more than one set of PCI interface board (including the combination with the DP70 camera) in
a single PC. (This means that the PC cannot be used to control multiple cameras.)
9. The camera head of the DP30BW cannot be controlled using the PCI interface board for the DP70 camera.
It is neither possible to control the camera head of the DP70 using the PCI interface board for the DP30BW.
