Minimum and Recommended System Requirements
The following chart displays recommended Observer Standard, Observer Expert, Observer Suite, and Observer Reporting Server minimum and recommended hardware requirements. As with any high-performance network analysis product, the more RAM, and the faster the processor the better.

The minimum system requirements are:
· Dual core Pentium class processor
· 2GB RAM
· Windows XP or newer


The recommended system requirements are:
· Quad core Pentium class processor
· 8GB RAM
· Windows 64-bit operating system (XP/Vista/2003/2008/Windows 7)

Observer may run on systems with less power and RAM than those listed above, but Network Instruments does not support configurations with less than the minimum stated requirements.