Hi there,
Just in case others are going through the issue of trying to find a pc which has enough pci stability to run creamware cards (pulsar , luna etc)...
I tried various "modern" pc's with so called native pci but always got the pci overload errors whenever i did anything more than play one synth, with no asios.
After a lot of researching and recommendations from some long time scope users, i found an old, but in excellent condition, hp xw6000 server / workstation (2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz with 2GB of new kingston ram, an onboard 36gb scsi disk, a 160gb ide, a 512 mb radeon agp card and best of all, 4 "proper" pci slots & NO PCI EXPRESS (so no horrible pci bus sharing..) for 40 Euros !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..yep, i did say 40 EUROS !!
I had to only update the bios, install win 7, scope and my daw, hook up to analogue mxing desk, and wahaaay ! My Pulsar 2 and Luna cards with full synth packs are now working brilliantly again, and not a single error so far (2 datys running / testing). The best thing of all is as the machine is pre efi, and is actually a server, you can manually alter irq assignments if you have any conflicts with any other devices.....The things is also built like a tank compared to a normal desktop.
SO, to cut a long story short, if you want to have a machine to keep your pci creamware / sonic core cards alive and kicking, go look on ebay and get yourself a 2nd hand hp xw series with twin xeons and no pci express and you will be laughing !!
See pics and happy scoping !
SCOPE PCI Motherboard/CPU Recommendations
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yep they are great get 4gb ram and your great to go
only xp3 32bit on mine for the samplers though but rock solid
i like it so much going to upgrade my second scope machine to the same pc
only xp3 32bit on mine for the samplers though but rock solid
i like it so much going to upgrade my second scope machine to the same pc
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got the new motherboard, cpu and ram today.
I'll let you know how all work with my Pulsar2 card.
I'll let you know how all work with my Pulsar2 card.
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Hi there - How did it go? Curious as really wanting to try and go for a "modern" pc again as want to try and run my 3 scope cards in w7 64bit giving me more memory for my daw..Polarity wrote:got the new motherboard, cpu and ram today.
I'll let you know how all work with my Pulsar2 card.
Mark
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just read my other topic I did for telling that
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=31897
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=31897
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Ha - Nice onePolarity wrote:just read my other topic I did for telling that
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=31897