hey guys i need your advice,
i'm intending to buy a new machine and replace my old p-ii 400 mhz
i'm thinking of buying p-iii 866mhz with asus cusl2-c (i815 chipset) and all the other shit which is not very important to that discussion.
i heard somewhere that pulsar have problem with via chipset so i decided to walk on the safe side.
my question , does anyone of you has the same configuration ? and if you do are there any problems refer to the motherboard and cpu ?
and another question , how pulsar works with amd and amd motherboards ?
i worked fine so far with my junkie 400mhz so i asume things can only get better but i now pulsar does some problems with some other hardware pieces..
thanx
your advice (by gelder)
Subject: mobo
I was running an ABIT SL-6 until I fried the BIOS (lousy instructions - yeah, that's it and I substituted an ASUS CUSL-2 for the ABIT. I'm getting the ABIT back, and I'm seriously thinking of retiring the ASUS from Pulsar duty. Not that the ASUS is a bad board (quite nice, actually), but I think the ABIT <may> be just a little more refined - and, no, I cannot quantify that, it's strictly a perception and any difference is extremely small.
PS, the 256M of RAM I have is 100, not 133, so I have not put the ASUS to the full test.
I was running an ABIT SL-6 until I fried the BIOS (lousy instructions - yeah, that's it and I substituted an ASUS CUSL-2 for the ABIT. I'm getting the ABIT back, and I'm seriously thinking of retiring the ASUS from Pulsar duty. Not that the ASUS is a bad board (quite nice, actually), but I think the ABIT <may> be just a little more refined - and, no, I cannot quantify that, it's strictly a perception and any difference is extremely small.
PS, the 256M of RAM I have is 100, not 133, so I have not put the ASUS to the full test.
Subject: Yeah, Pulsar sux with Via/AMD
As soon as you use more than 10 or 12 busses to asio in 24/96,
you got a PCI overflow error.
I use Abit KT7 raid with Athlon 1000, and,
believe me, it rocks for audio, except those REALLY
ANNOYING crashes. I'm fed up, and , now, I
don't know if I will go on with creamware stuff or go to
RME Hammerfall which doesn't do that...
I'm planning to open a ("little") 32 tracks studio,
and the money I have is not unlimited, so...
I think that a 1300$ board could be a little better optimized for Non-intel processors that are powerfull than
intel's... Duron = PIII, and Athlon is light years among...
As soon as you use more than 10 or 12 busses to asio in 24/96,
you got a PCI overflow error.
I use Abit KT7 raid with Athlon 1000, and,
believe me, it rocks for audio, except those REALLY
ANNOYING crashes. I'm fed up, and , now, I
don't know if I will go on with creamware stuff or go to
RME Hammerfall which doesn't do that...
I'm planning to open a ("little") 32 tracks studio,
and the money I have is not unlimited, so...
I think that a 1300$ board could be a little better optimized for Non-intel processors that are powerfull than
intel's... Duron = PIII, and Athlon is light years among...