DDR3 on videocards too fast 4 SFP?

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:52 pm

I'm putting together the last few peices for DAW #2 SFP/EnergyXT. I have read about the PCI-e troubles with certain audio apps. Is this due to the size of the onboard RAM, or the ultra fast speed of the DDR3. Or is just the uneeded new PCI-e standard we are forced to use.

H-Rave · Post by **H-Rave** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:56 pm

I think the pci-e issue probably comes more likely than not from windows, and it's as usual not on the ballness.As for software manufacturers,the interface between the hardware and the programs is,of course,windows.I suppose it's always a problem between the drivers and microsoft Go Figure.

Post by **garyb** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:03 pm

video uber alles! = pci-e

valis · Post by **valis** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:42 pm

On 2006-08-02 15:56, H-Rave wrote:
I think the pci-e issue probably comes more likely than not from windows, and it's as usual not on the ballness.As for software manufacturers,the interface between the hardware and the programs is,of course,windows.I suppose it's always a problem between the drivers and microsoft Go Figure.

Actually it isn't a 'windows' issue. On some of the older (or cheaper) chipsets with PCIe, the PCIe lanes were grabbing too much 'main' system bandwidth and causing problems for PCI devices that needed a lot of bandwidth. Nforce4 has this issue out of the box and there is an intel i9xx chipset that had it too (iirc). Check the Tech section on this site for more info on known good PCIe implementations.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:18 pm

Thank you Brotha' Man Valis,
I will be using the newest 965 chipset from Intel with the Conroe E6700, so I hope I'm safe. Just purchased the eVGA GeForce 6800GT PCI-e w/ 256MB DDR2, not the DDR3. So we shall see. I will be posting about failure/sucsess by month's end. I am hoping that this DP965LT is the new D965PERL, it shall be my VST/SFP DAW 4 Live Performance.

Strength And Honor,

valis · Post by **valis** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:04 am

On 2006-08-02 18:18, scope4live wrote:
I will be posting about failure/sucsess by month's end.

Definately post up your results. The tech talk reports are one of the best assets here on the Z (imo), especially as existing setups age.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:39 pm

I have high hopes 4 this beauty.