what is the optimum system requirements for LabVIEW?

[altenbach]

Fortunately, you don't even need to decide on the LabVIEW bitness. Just install the 32bit version. If need arises, you can always also install the 64bit version. AFAIK, you should be able to activate both with the same code. You can even install and use both at the same time.

Most modern processors perform great unless you go really low end (atom, etc.) and RAM is so cheap that it does not really matter much. (Most of my RAM usage is not by LabVIEW, but by web browsers, e.g. chrome runs most tabs as a separate process.)

Looking at a high RAM usage on a computer with a lots of RAM does not mean that things will now work with much less RAM.  Like an ideal gas, modern OS and software tries to use as much available RAM as possible because free RAM is worthless for all practical purpose. 😄 

[asukumari]

Yeah that's what I am going to do. Place an order for a workstation.

Nope cant wait until May.

[asukumari]

Fast forward to June 2018 from the time I posted the question:

I ordered a HP workstation (HP Z4 G4 with all the bells and whistles. SSDs, 1TB PCIe NVME M.2I drives, 64 GB RAM). It was a disaster. Every time I try to communicate with my chassis, it failed rising the 928 PCIe Error. Called up NI applications engineer, and related engineers to help resolve the issue. Never worked. Until I tried the same setup on a DELL machine and voila! It worked like a plug and play system.

HP is involved now and trying to resolve the issue. Both HP and DELL bear multiple PCIe root buses but DELL seems to work just fine.

Could it be all the additional bells and whistles on the HP motherboard that caused the problem? Could it be that the power specification for the PCIe slot is good enough? I do not know the answers, but this is the story so far.

I will update  this thread as I get more information and try to help others.

Just putting  this out here so that