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

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.

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?

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.