garyb wrote:if you have a p67 board, it may or may not work.
what the hell are the technical specs of the board that you don't use a Scope card with supposed to do for me? do you think i don't know what that motherboard is? it's nice that yours worked, but there are many more people who have been terribly disappointed by that chipset's pci performance, which may be the worst of any motherboard ever manufactured since the dawn of the pentium. usually, they DO work, but they never work well, not compared to 1156 and 775 machines that are really just as fast for most audio uses. if you're using massive amounts of samples or playing video games or doing video rendering, the sandybridge machines may be an advantage, but not for 99% of audio work. for this reason, i never recommend a sandybridge machine for a pci card.
Oh my...
I am not sure are you pointing these questions to me or not. What do you think about it may or may not work.?!?? I think you went way bellow average common sense in spreading these rumors. Here i'll provide my claims and will actually support them with links from intel.
But for start:
My machine isn't some strange blue martian computer from outer space and i am not any kind of wizard. I provided technical spec because i was thinking that you are misunderstanding what i posted. That was all about it. Clearly as hell two scope boards worked as WELL as other DSP hardware from various different companies. Everything WORKED on my p67 but let us say that i lie about it here or spreading some sort of nonsense because of some strange reason (which i am not even aware of)..
I am not sure from where are you pulling these very very weird assumptions which doesn't provide any logic. Since you are telling these weird things it looks like i am talking nonsense so it's better for you to back up your claims. Because i'll do mine.
I can provide you two links. For fresh start one is
http://www.kvraudio.com one is
http://www.gearslutz.com. Both places are forum meeting places but they are very different. What is important here is that these places are where various people, amateurs, pro musicians and really all kind of audio people meets and discuss things. Literally thousands of them.
Now again i am not sure where do you pulling your nonsense but you can use "search" functions at these forums and you'll find literally hundreds of people with hundreds of different setup machines with one common report. People rave about i7 performance, especially i7 2600k. No one EVER complained about his setup working strange on P67 or that someone has some weird PCI errors. No one. Sure you'll find some issues but they are mostly because of flawed MB. Just use search and seek for "i upgraded my system to sandy bridge" or something like it. You'll find hundreds of report and overall 95% of people (very same people which are using their computers for DAW) rave about blazing performance in audio. What's important is that they are all using different hardware, DSP, PCI cards and whatnot. Conclusion - clearly it's working
But let us say that even they lie about it.
Take this..Dude some top DAW computer workstation companies are now selling complete DAW worksations with i72600k (which is so socket 1155) ranging from P67 to z68 chipset. Here i'll provide you a link of a few:
http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=daw_pc
And here is one from well know seller 3XS Scan:
http://3xs.scan.co.uk/Category.asp?Syst ... tegoryID=2
And there are MANY more..
If you look closer they (3xscan) are selling quite a few 1155 configurations. Search for PowerDAW product. They don't have P67 anymore but they had and you can mail them. Clearly they had thousands of them at the beginning of the year. Only reason why they are now including z68 is obvious pure marketing because we all know that people always want latest numbers and (here comes the fun part) Z68 is FACK*** SAME CHIPSET with
same architecture towards PCI and PCIe lanes. Only difference is
1. Integrated graphics support
2. Use of Quicksync for video transcoding
3. SSD Caching
Everything else regarding architecture is SAME!!!! PCI (i mean lack of) and PCI-E Same!!! General logical architecture is SAME. Oh look you can find info on...wait...Intel website..
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... ipset.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... ipset.html
Needless to say that there are various companies which use and sell Z68 with both PCI and PCIE slots in just the very same way like P67. Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Asrock to name a few.
And there are literally NUMEROUS reviews which will tell you same thing about P67 vs z68
Which support my claims. There is nothing wrong with P67 or any kind of 1155 chipset. They are working flawless for any kind of job.
I think that only you think that
computer musicians are some sort of esoteric people which use their computers in the way intel could not figure out. I mean what the hell of a claim is that? That's even not funny anymore.
You are starting to sound like one of these people which claim that Windows 98 OS is last operating system which ever worked and everything else is technology flaw.
In the end let me ask you one simple thing - Do you really think that all these normal people/users, all these various companies would sell something which is good only for gaming task and something which have PCI flaw which is obvious only for musicians and their tasks? Come on dude? What went wrong with you?
For some odd reason you are telling people to go step back and downgrade their computers...for what? To get xite working? Or what? If that's the case then someone at SC should address issue (i am not saying there is one), not people buying older machines. I simply can't understand..
