what is more important for max. audio channels? PCI-Bandwidt

bontempi · Post by **bontempi** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 5:39 pm

just bought a pulsar II and experienced the well known problems with a via/athlon700MHz/256MB combination: with 14(mono)-channels in cubase 5.1 and 2 stereo(XTC)compressors my system is freaking and it sounds like playing an "old record" - i still got my BX/400MHzPIII/256MB system -
...and i now ask myself what's the better deal for playing more channels..?

and in general: everybody's talking about the max. number of MVs-but what conclusion can i take from it for my channel-no.-problem??? is finally a P4 with the best performing MoBo (i850) the best solution?

questions over questions - but i think i already surfed through the postings and there's not really an answer for it...

thanx for help

matt

bontempi · Post by **bontempi** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:02 pm

... i think i could afford a PIV 1.6 GHz (Northwood) with Abit i850 MoBo and 256MB/PC800 would this solve my problem?
or is an ASUS to prefer? AGP Grafx card is no question...

bontempi · Post by **bontempi** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:59 pm

ok-you're all right: with some more searching you find answers - at least for the BX issue -http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=19&7
thank's everybody for helping me

remains the question about the MoBo: might it be worth to wait until 533MHz FSB is available on i850E - or even don't wait and take the SiS645DX and overclock it to 533MHz? i ain't got any ram.remains that would fit in a P4-board ... - so why not just buy the fastest?

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 7:19 pm

If you buy the SIS you will be takinhg a bit of a risk

just get the p4 1.6A/850 or wait and get one with 533.

oh yeah the 850 boards do not have the PCI locking feature like the 845 DDR ones from Abit and Asus. so if you want ultimate speed wait for the 533 rambus. (then something else even cooler will be announced you can wait for. meanwhile stuck in VIA land

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Post by **garyb** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 9:41 pm

i've got an 850 board. nice...........

bontempi · Post by **bontempi** » Fri Apr 12, 2002 10:13 am

do you mean the PCI Locking or PCI CLocking ??? how it help und disturb me?

as well i might have run out of HD-bandwith - i got one seagate 7200rpm 20 gb for OS/Progs and Maxtor 5400rpm 20gb for audio data - but i think they both hold streams above 2megs/s
,basically - and the vst-performance window shows HD@30% /CPU@60% -

...and a PCI-overflow error is shure not the result of too many audio tracks - or am i wrong???

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Fri Apr 12, 2002 11:22 am

PCI locking. the PCI bus stays at 33mhz no matter what FSB is set to.

Goa303 · Post by **Goa303** » Fri Apr 12, 2002 12:03 pm

On 2002-04-11 20:19, defex wrote:
oh yeah the 850 boards do not have the PCI locking feature like the 845 DDR ones from Abit and Asus. so if you want ultimate speed wait for the 533 rambus. (then something else even cooler will be announced you can wait for. meanwhile stuck in VIA land )

Wrong: the ABIT TH7-II is a i850 motherboard and support AGP/PCI clk locking and it works perfectly.

bontempi · Post by **bontempi** » Sat Apr 13, 2002 8:03 pm

good point - so i'll go for my first suggestion... next week ... and then keep on living from wine and bread for the rest of the month...

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Sat Apr 13, 2002 8:44 pm

On 2002-04-12 13:03, Goa303 wrote:

Wrong: the ABIT TH7-II is a i850 motherboard and support AGP/PCI clk locking and it works perfectly.

althugh it is not required to be so rude, thanks for pointing that out