I just ordered an Asus A7N266-C as the german magazine keyboards recommended it as the best board available for pulsar-users today. The guy who tested it with an XP1800 could get 9 masterverbs loaded without pci-problems and could also use (!) all nine. But he had to do an Bios-Upgrade in advance (Bios-No. 1002).
I think that I will receive the parcel tomorrow and can build my new DAW during the weekend. Of course I will let you know about my experiences.
Has anybody made experiences yet?
Cheers
Asus A7N266-C
Yes. I had one of the first nForce boards back in Jan02, it had horrible performance, not even one masterVerb without errors. Tech-Report, known by some to run stories about the problems of VIA (and getting flack from it, which is kind of wierd - people would rather not hear the truth about something it seems), actually helped trace the problem down and ASuS released a BIOS which fixes it... hopefully MSi follows suit.
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/3724
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/3724
I was one of the first buyers of the A7N266 and when I read Subhuman´s test I immediately threw it out again onto the street (I didnt dare exchange my running Mobo without proof)
Just 2 weeks ago I read about the Bios update from Asus and I ordered this time an A7266N-C.
Yesterday I finally got the time to run the famous MV test and I can proof that 9 loaded successfully (Load test/Run test excluded). On the 10th the nice message appeared and I still had some DSP left. Well I can say I have really a better performance now than with my GA-7DXR and I am very happy now with my DAW. Just be sure to use 2! identical RAMs and that they are unbuffered.
Go for it. You wont regret it!
PS:Dont dare to run the old OSinstallation with the new Mobo in case you have Windows XP. In this case mine did extremly crash on bootup with a BSOD.
Hope this helps a little
Just 2 weeks ago I read about the Bios update from Asus and I ordered this time an A7266N-C.
Yesterday I finally got the time to run the famous MV test and I can proof that 9 loaded successfully (Load test/Run test excluded). On the 10th the nice message appeared and I still had some DSP left. Well I can say I have really a better performance now than with my GA-7DXR and I am very happy now with my DAW. Just be sure to use 2! identical RAMs and that they are unbuffered.
Go for it. You wont regret it!
PS:Dont dare to run the old OSinstallation with the new Mobo in case you have Windows XP. In this case mine did extremly crash on bootup with a BSOD.
Hope this helps a little
Howdy, thats great news, I am an AMD fan and Im wondering what stability is like on these boards?
Have u done any extensive work with them?
With pulsar synths/soft synths, any stuttering, unexplained clicks etc?
What is the lowest ULLI you can achieve?
If you could answer these questions for me, then I might just take the plunge with it.
Thanks in Advance
Have u done any extensive work with them?
With pulsar synths/soft synths, any stuttering, unexplained clicks etc?
What is the lowest ULLI you can achieve?
If you could answer these questions for me, then I might just take the plunge with it.
Thanks in Advance
Add life to your days, not days to your life.