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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:36 am
by Music Manic
Thanks for cpu recommendation guys.
Have just bought with RAM.
Could you suggest which hard drive to go for.
Does SATA work well?
Thanks
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:43 am
by AndreD
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:52 am
by Stubbe
Could you elaborate a little on the no s-ata policy (I for one are curious since I am running S-ATA, so far OK, but who knows...)
Cheers
Stubbe
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:29 pm
by Music Manic
Just read that SATA may interfere with other hardware,but don't take my word for that.
Thanks
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:16 pm
by patricka6
I would guess that enabling the SATA controller uses up another IRQ therefore possibly causing IRQ sharing conflicts. Other than that SATA (Raided "0")is supposed to give better performance. From what I've heard and read.
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:17 pm
by braincell
The problem is that there are only 15 possible IRQ numbers and now motherboards use so many of them on built in things. You have to disable the ones you don't need. Most modern PCI cards are able to use the same IRQ as other divices but Creamware cards are different. This is a bad thing about Creamware.
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:57 pm
by astroman
it is as good or bad as with any other card and in noway CWA related.
If a mouse interupt isn't handled in time you won't even notice, if a harddisk is a ms late this is buffered, but a real-time audio stream MUST be serverd when it's due - otherwise you'll hear it
cheers, tom
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:43 pm
by braincell
Other pro audio cards don't have the irq problems that creamware cards do.
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:02 pm
by garyb
i doon't think that's true at all. most other cards won't have multiple cards running either.