leoncatz

Why not just buy stuff that you know will be supported...You don't know Sound Card problems if they hit you guys in the head with a barn....Try using totaly High-End audio hardware and having to call the companies, tell the sales reps to take their hardware and shove it up their Slot-1s...hehe...and to E-mail the GxxDamned Drivers now before I shxt through the phone....Emagic sucks when it come to drivers and tech support....MOTUs rule... I found that just using the aureal vortex was completely support without 3rd party drivers....Hows that for a not bad card....Not great, just not bad... [This message has been edited by leoncatz (edited 18 July 2000).]

You need to be running Detonator(not 2) 5.17. I have these on my drive so if you want them Send me a mail...I send for you no problem. Maybe you allready have them...Thats what I use until they get it right....I'm not changing to Detonator 2 Drivers....nononono

If your apps require Max memory bandwith, you should forget PX CPUs and BX chipsets. You should definatly consider running Dual Xeon. They are optimized for memory Bandwith and have the Cache required for High Floating Point Integer Calculations. There is no need to run 800Mhz CPUs when you have lots of bandwith. For multi-tasking, which we all need to do at some point, there is no better setup. RAM + Cache + Bandwith = Power. I find that the MS-6135 from MSI is great. http://www.msi.com.tw/Product/mainboard/6321.htm I am running Dual Xeon P2 400 w/1MB of Cache. I picked up my setup for approx. $1900.00, sold privatly so there was no tax on the CPUs, but the board which I bought new, was $379.00 + Taxes = $432.06. And that's Canadian...The rest of my system for those interested, 2 x 128MBSDRAM, TNT2 32MB AudioWork 8 (2INs/8OUTs), SBLive MP3, KA Plus 13.6GB NT Boot drive, Hacked Promise U66 to Fasttrak 66 w/4 x 13.6GB Fujisty 5400RPM running 2+0 Stripe x 2. Premiere 5 has never run so well, specialy when rendering previews. With Cubase 5, the audio streams are very consistant with 6FX on each channel having 32 concurent tracks. This is my home computer. Q3 still benchmarks low because the bottleneck is my TNT2(non-ultra). I have no problems with Cubase like some users of 98 on budget machines. 2K's NTFS is out of this world with the RAID setup too...Well I hope this can help you!

This is a highly debated topic. There is no better way to know something than to understand it. I mean understand as learning how it applies to you. Here is the technincal information that I believe you were asking for in your posting. Since noone else really answered you. Rightly so, http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/faq.htm That should be a good read. Take it from me, it's very important to read information about the technology you're purchasing, it changes so fast. You think you're bying Hubba Bubba...Then you look at the pack and it says...Hubboo Bubboo....LOL I studied MicroComputer Technologies Exclusively and the one thing I realized is, that it was a good thing that I love to read. Cause there certainly alot of stuff to know when it comes down to I.T. Most of the transitions from one tech to another are linear. Never will you find a tech that completely forgets all of the preceding tech. A little step up from the crap they dished out last year, is what we get. [This message has been edited by leoncatz (edited 18 July 2000).]

You need to be running Detonator(not 2) 5.17. I have these on my drive so if you want them Send me a mail...I send for you no problem. Maybe you allready have them...Thats what I use until they get it right....I'm not changing to Detonator 2 Drivers....nononono