New creamware boards In a near future?

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New creamware boards In a near future?

Post by marcianus »

We can expect new developments of Pulsar boards in PCIexpress format in a near future?. I need to change the mainboard of my PC . What to choose? A mainboard full of PCIs or full of PCIexpress slots?. Any info?

Sorry for my bad english.
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It’s in India where the majority of the “next big thing” is being engineered, and we certainly have you, our SCOPE community, in mind. To be frank, as we are also working on other (but not totally unrelated) projects, that new platform will still take a while to mature and replace a full SCOPE. But it has other talents which are really neat.
thats the only info we got!

this seems to more or less mean that we can expect a new scope lineup soon or later...

But I wouldn`t expect to early! It is a big project...

normal boards feature 2pci slots and 3 PCI-E slots.... so I would recommend taking one of these to make sure you are ready for the future....
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current boards include inteld965lt and d965ry, both buy intel. 3pci slots. the Supermicro P4SCT+II looks promising, 4 pci slots.
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Supermicro is a great brand too. I've been running their workstation boards since 1997.
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Also, their BIOS allows OC'ing, if you have an engineering sample CPU.
233MHz stable on the old P4 Northwood EE series.

I can only imagine what they have for the Core 2 Duo, and the chipset upgrade in respect to their memory controllers.

They are also a no frills mobo, built for stability. I am so happy w/ my cheap Intels though.
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scope4live wrote:Also, their BIOS allows OC'ing, if you have an engineering sample CPU.
233MHz stable on the old P4 Northwood EE series.

I can only imagine what they have for the Core 2 Duo, and the chipset upgrade in respect to their memory controllers.

They are also a no frills mobo, built for stability. I am so happy w/ my cheap Intels though.
I cannot recommend overclocking....
I ve did this one time, and checked my Pc after overclocking with many hours prime, 3mark and other stuff... Everything worked fine so far.
Then I started to produce music again, and everytime I did render a song in cubase (full 100% CPU consumption) I had clicks and other stuff in it.
I had a really hard time to realize that it was due to overclocking.
:D
I`ve searched for a month or so and couldn`t find the bug. I even reinstalled my OS. :lol: Then I though: hey, it was working half a year ago!" and then I asked myself, what did you changed since this half year... so I clocked it down and everything was fine!

crazy isn`t it.... ?
:lol:

seriously you don`t get that much power from overclocking....
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I only know of one use that works well, as I don't do it myself. When you are doing video and audio, and trying to make a whole project fit that is sluggish from the speed of the memory subsystem.
I have seen this work well w/ the Pentium M 780, on an AOpen w/ the 915 chipset also.
But stability is my concern, and that's why I do w/o OC'ing.

But the Supermicro mobo's have run mission critical servers w/ Intel chipsets 4 years, and I 4 one will build w/ one of these in the future. I have 3 DAW's w/ Intel chipsets. 2 w/ Intel mobo's, and 1 w/ the Supermicro P4SCT+II. None have ever crashed live, and the P4SCT+II has run for a year longer than the 865PERL, or the 965LT. My hardest choice to make is which stable mobo to use next !!
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Post by emzee »

Are they gonna stay with PCI boards? .... I had the impression Creamware was going the way of ProFools with a stand alone box ......
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Post by petal »

Nobody besides Creamware and maybe InDSP knows anything about potential future Creamware solutions. All "info" on the subject are speculations.
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Post by Fede »

Ooops... Have a look at this...

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A part of all that oc stuff it seems quite interesting to me: 4 pci plus a distinct pcie 4x for some extra card (in the future?) not conflicting nor stealing bandwidth from pci bus (...a solution for people still using SCSI drives like me).

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nice one, I am sure one PCI slot gets blocked with better gaming cards... :)
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Post by valis »

That board is meant for Ati's Crossfire (dual PCIe graphics cards). Hence the 2 PCIe slots.
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Post by dawman »

That is a bitchin' SLI board !!!
I am a sucker 4 looks, but am I wrong about this? The name, the look, and the quality work Asus is known for. What a great product. Awesome layout, and cooling solution.
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scope4live wrote:That is a bitchin' SLI board !!!
I am a sucker 4 looks, but am I wrong about this? The name, the look, and the quality work Asus is known for. What a great product. Awesome layout, and cooling solution.
Hi S4L,

Asus has drop much quality over the years, its nowhere as good as it was.
I would say medium quality...

Now others are better....
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Post by Stige »

hifiboom wrote:
scope4live wrote:That is a bitchin' SLI board !!!
I am a sucker 4 looks, but am I wrong about this? The name, the look, and the quality work Asus is known for. What a great product. Awesome layout, and cooling solution.
Hi S4L,

Asus has drop much quality over the years, its nowhere as good as it was.
I would say medium quality...

Now others are better....
I agree. I have encountered couple of asus boards in state of decomposition after couple of years of usage.
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Post by ARCADIOS »

i must say that my gigabyte dq6 is the most stable board tryied.
very good construction and very good cpu stability.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... A-965P-DQ6

i also have ds3 which has 3 pci slots but the dq6 has a better cpu stability.
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Post by hifiboom »

also using Gigabyte passive cooled chipset board over:

I could caracterize as
-stable
-quiet
-fast
-cheap
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Post by dawman »

It still looks great, but I trust my fellow Pulsarians. I would love to see this in a gamer rig w/ mods galore.

And now 4 something completely different. This is the board that runs my first DAW. It has a 100% stability record w/ 4 x raptors, 2GB ECC Samsung, and Gigastudio 160 2.54 / SFP. 3 x Scope DP boards. This was the perfect rig, and is still making me major cash w/ the DAS Modular Mixer designed 4 the Hussies. Notice the placement of the RAM. Perfect for the rear case fan 4 major cooling w/o buying fins of copper, or fans. Supermicro always comes out with mission critical mobos. Intel products are just tested over and over for quality assurance, and when Supermicro and Intel are combined, It's safe to use @ a live gig 4 hours.
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Post by sonicstrav »

InDSP I think will be the guys that will produce a new Scope v5 software with new hardware to support it. Making the hardware is easy - it's the software programming that's takes time and since all the programmers cleared off when Creamware went bankrupt I think we are relying on these Indian guys to further develop the plstform. I have a feeling that the dynatube tube was probably these programmers first plug ins so if they are any good (what are they like?) I am pretty optimistic for the future :)
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Post by Immanuel »

Strav - At least some of this is pure speculations. Therefor I have the choice to guess either:

Do you know something (when you claim, that all software developers took off).

Or is this just as much speculation as the thing about who made the Dynatube stuff?

You know, by speculating in this way, it is easy to create a new truth, wich has nothing to do with the truth. The company involved will, however, have to deal with the fact, that (potential) custommers start to believe in these "internet truths".
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