best mobo/cpu

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 2:16 pm

hello i know i should probably get the asus cusl2 mobo for my pulsar, but my question is what is the fastest processor i can use with it, its spec says only up to 933 mhz.....

Mo · Post by Mo » Mon Apr 30, 2001 12:06 am

because the intel CPUs have hardwired multipliers, you can use every cpu that fits into the socket and runs with the given core voltage...
so if intel doesn´t change the socket (like with p4) and if the cusl is flexible enough (voltage), you can use every new >gigahertz-p3 coming forth...

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Apr 30, 2001 5:22 pm

The fastest P3 you can get is still the 1.0GHz variety. They did release a 1.13mhz P3, but recalled it, and have moved to P4. Once the P4 settles down a bit on a socket formfactor, then it'll be the next step...

Until then, CUSL2 is king, and DDR/Athlons are another (relatively untested) choice.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: subhuman on 2001-05-09 11:53 ]</font>

Mo · Post by Mo » Fri May 04, 2001 3:57 am

yes, amd760 with ddr-ram might be also a good choice, but intel is still far better (in case of pci-performance)

in the summer msi, abit and asus will release boards with nvidia´s crush12 chipset, i´m very looking forward to this.
it comes with an improved bus architecture, and with a built-in geforceMX.
crush18, coming end of this year, will contain a geforce3 onboard...

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri May 04, 2001 8:47 am

Damn at current prices, a mobo with geforce3 would be over $400! Yikes!

Someone from the Pulsar-Scope list has said in their preliminary tests, the ASUS A7M266 (AMD 761 chipset) is working okay with Dual Scopes. They didn't get a Timeworks 4080L reverb count yet, which is a good way to "benchmark" a board. I can get 6 of these on the CUSL2, with PCI overflow on the 7th verb. This remains to be beaten by any other chipset. Obviously you probably wouldn't need 6 different reverbs in a track, but this is the easiest way to measure how much Sampling, Delays, and Reverb you can get out of your system.

(My test system: 1Ghz CUSL2 w/ PCI latency @ 255, Pulsar1+LunaII = 6 Timeworks, PCI overflow on 7th)

Can someone who has an AMD760/761 chipset-based system post how many Timeworks 4080L reverbs they can get so we can get an idea of it's PCI performance?

Thanks!

Mo · Post by Mo » Sat May 05, 2001 4:31 pm

what do you think is most important to this pci-issue?

memory bandwidth/performance and/or the way the pci-bus is connected?

</i>