Hello, I am responsible for setting up and running the screen for my church each week. I upgraded from Easyworship 2009 to Easyworship 6 last month, but have been unable to use it reliably on the old computer in our sanctuary. My church is considering purchasing a new computer because we want to be able to use Easyworship 6, but I don't completely understand the video card requirements. Here are the specs of the computer I am looking at buying:

Desktop Processor Intel i5
Speed Desktop Processor Speed 3.2 GHz
Desktop CPU Cache 6MB
RAM Desktop Memory (GB) 8
T Desktop Memory Type DDR3 1600
Desktop Hard Drive Size Details 1TB
Desktop Hard Drive Size (GB) 1000
sp Desktop Hard Drive Speed 7200RPM
T Desktop Hard Drive Type SATA
Desktop Optical Drive DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive, 16X, SATA
Desktop Network Card Dell DW1506 (802.11 b/g/n) WLAN half mini-Card
Desktop LAN Data Transfer Rate 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Desktop Operating System Windows 8.1
Desktop USB Ports 2 x USB 3.0, 6 x USB 2.0
Desktop Other Ports 1 x HDMI, 1 x VGA, 3 stack audio jacks, mic, headphone
Desktop Special Feature 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Desktop Video Graphics Intel HD Graphics 2500
Desktop Media Card Reader WLAN half mini-Card
Desktop Audio Integrated 5.1 Audio
(Staples Item: 56855)

My Question is this: Will the Intel HD Graphics 2500 be good enough to run Easyworship 6? (We do not have a Stage Display or an Alpha Channel.)

Thanks for any advice you may have,
Josh

EasyWorship 6 will run on that video card, but form my testing on the Intel 2000 card, the video transitions and video playback / video backgrounds will probably not be smooth.
You should be able to upgrade the video card to something better like an NVIDIA GTX 750 for about $100.

I upgraded from Easyworship 2009 to Easyworship 6 last month, but have been unable to use it reliably on the old computer in our sanctuary. My church is considering purchasing ??? from where?

Are you buying parts to build or pre-built? New or refurbished?

Newegg ([url:i9m3u022]http://www.newegg.com/) has all of the above.
Amazon ([url:i9m3u022]http://www.amazon.com/) has parts and new computers.
Dell has new ([url:i9m3u022]http://www.dell.com/) and refurbished ([url:i9m3u022]http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/df.aspx?refid=df&s=gen&cs=22) computers.
Woot.com ([url:i9m3u022]http://www.woot.com/) has refurbished computers.

At church we have custom built (Intel i5-2500, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, 500 GB HD, AMD Radeon HD 6850) with parts from Newegg and refurbished HP Pavilion P7-1446s (AMD A10-5700K, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HD, AMD Radeon HD 7660D) from Woot. Custom built was $1,200 and refurbished was $420. Both were adequate for EW2009, but likely not for EW6. I am looking to upgrade both with new 3 TB HD and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, plus replace 128 GB SSD with 500 GB SSD and replace HP 300W power supply with 700W.