anyone using a via ple133?

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 11:16 am

Okay, I don't want to hear it about "the performance..blahblah...via....no good...

Is anyone over here using a pulsar on a via ple133 chipset? I would not be doing a lot of things on it, mainly using the pulsar as a flexible sound router. So I can connect everything to it, set the routing and forget about it until I buy new stuff. It will not have to run more than the hardware inputs, maybe a mixer, some switch device and a dither module or 2. I can get such a PLE133 board for near nothing.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 12:19 pm

As long as you don't pay much for it, should be fine. Reverbs, delays, and sampler voices will be the main limitations. Synths and routing should be fine. As long as you know and can live with the limitaions, do it!

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 12:55 pm

MMM, I'm not so sure, every so often the pulsar software on my via system just loses sync, requiring you to select slave then master again.
This is especially true of the SFP software, under WINXP, but happens on all of the OS's I have tried.
Why not pick up a cheap intel based system instead?

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 10:09 pm

It won't do reverbs (might use some delay sometimes). I never used synths or samplers and have no use for them, so I'll give it a try.

Ok, so I'll use 3.01, good enough.

Post by **garyb** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 11:47 pm

it should work.........

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 10:52 am

Just for the record: a pulsar1 works fine on a VIA Epia800 board. Could not resist it, an almost silent (case open next to you) pc.