dawman wrote:I am shocked you found a new i7 920....
Those were excellent overclockers, and the 930s were good too.
Not that you need a wqhole bunch of CPU speed, but the boost in RAM speed
does help with Kontakt, VSL and PLAY.
Nice rig.
thanks!
"new (to me)" = used.
some gamer was upgrading their system.
i'm sure the CPU & RAM will come in handy, especially when i get around to upgrading NI Komplete 4 & writing to video.
the 1366 format is "mature". there really shouldn't be any needed bios updates for standard products like that video card unless you bought an original rev...
Great to see guys using older mature and proven poroducts that are mature and even improved over the years.
If you overvlosk it I have heard the a 3.2GHz would allow similar heat disappation so it;s a fe free jolt of juice. I still have a retired 930 that ran for a few years at 3.4 really well on stock air.
You'll ne happy. The Ultra Durable Gigabyte is a fine choice.
garyb wrote:the 1366 format is "mature". there really shouldn't be any needed bios updates for standard products like that video card unless you bought an original rev...
i'd like to think so too.
but according to the motherboard site it supports NVIDIA SLI™, & the GeForce GT 630 is apparently not an SLI card. also on the motherboard BIOS download site it shows a "Improve VGA card compatibility" update. I am hoping this will bridge whatever gap i'm experiencing. if not i'll continue troubleshooting.
no, you definitely don't need an SLI card. i've used the GT6XX series including the GT630 and 620 many times. i've even used them in 1366 systems, it should work. i'm pretty sure PCIe graphics be disabled in the bios, although i'm doubtful that's the problem...
garyb wrote:no, you definitely don't need an SLI card. i've used the GT6XX series including the GT630 and 620 many times. i've even used them in 1366 systems, it should work. i'm pretty sure PCIe graphics be disabled in the bios, although i'm doubtful that's the problem...
i'll check PCIe graphics bios settings as well. worth a shot.
thanks!
I have an ancient 90 dollar NVidia card in my spoare DAW that housed cards.
It's the i7 930 too OC'd by air to 3.4GHz.
You can spend the extra cash but in all honesty even a Matrox G550 would work fine
if you could find one with a PCI-e adapter on it.
i have a couple old video cards lying around as well i could try out. more options for the bottom of the troubleshooting pile.
i didnt get to flashing the bios today. came home from the day job to blue screens of death. i spent most of the evening getting the OS back up & running.
in positive news, i go my ULLI latency down to the lowest setting possible & everything i'm running thru the card so far sounds great. couldn't do that in the old machine. also got some mixer settings dialed in.
should have more time to mess with it this weekend.
Stevil wrote:i got the impression the guy i bought it from is a "bleeding edge" gamer who bought it new & never needed to update.
thanks again for the tips.
that makes sense.
i'm mostly chattering on while you fixed it...
garyb wrote:right now, the last available port is #2(or 1right). just use the dropdown to make the last port the one at end of the list for input and output.
it would probably help if i read what's actually on the screen.
thanks Gary!
