Testing PC configuration

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 2:14 am

I'm about to buy a new PC (for my soon-to-be DAW) and think of following configuration:
- MS-745 ULTRA SIS 745 ATX DDR 333
- AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1733Mhz TROUGHBRED
- 512Mb DDR 333MHz PC-2700

Any comments?

I don't have Pulsar yet and my question is, can I somehow test this config before I get the Pulsar? What are the best benchmarking testers?

Thanks.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 10:00 am

You can not benchmark your way to a good Creamware setup. The most important part seams to be PCI-timing, wich - as far as I know - is not measured by any benchmark.

I have tried a sis735 based mobo, and it did not perform very well - even though it was said to have the highest PCI-bandwith.

The usual safe tip is to get a motherboard with a Pentium chipset. Those usually needs little to no tweaking to get working very good.

Immanuel

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 10:21 am

Yep, SiS735 is not good. But this MoBo has SiS745. If you read some threads, this chipset got some praises.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 11:08 am

Then why not go visit your local retailer, and see if you can get one on a "works with pulsar or bring it back" basis.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 12:18 pm

That's exactly what I'm going to do.
The only problem is that I don't have Pulsar yet. And I should know somehow whether it is good mobo or not...
Maybe it's best to wait for Pulsar... and check what are available then.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 4:27 pm

Yep, you can't really have the chicken without the egg.

(Ps, lets not get into a debate about which came first)

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:03 am

On 2002-09-04 17:27, remixme wrote:
Yep, you can't really have the chicken without the egg.

(Ps, lets not get into a debate about which came first)

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 3:13 am

First the egg ofcourse, and then he's going to put the egg in the chicken.