new motherboard

piet piel · Post by **piet piel** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:36 am

Helleuw people
I'm in need of more CPU-power. Do you guys know what would be a good choice of motherboard / processor? Of course considering using SFP 3.1c in combination with Nuendo and Reason.

This is a choice i'm considering:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (99,-)
Asus A7V333-X Mobo (96,-)
Kingston 512MB DDR PC2700 (135,-)

Good? Not good? Intel better?

If you have some tips, please!
Thanxx..
Manoah

Post by **garyb** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:41 am

intel definitely better.if you must use amd,use the nvidia chipset.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:52 pm

Don't go for that motherboard.
The VIA chipsets are notoriously bad for audio in general and CW in particular.
The older ones were close to unusable.
Definitley go for a nVidia chipset instead.

The best is Intel chipset with Intel processor.

piet piel · Post by **piet piel** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:56 am

Hello!

Thanx for the tips!! The following choice is what i'm considering right now:
Asus P4PE, S-478, i845PE, 3xDDR, Audio, LAN
Intel Celeron 1.7Ghz, 400Mhz, S-478, 128Kb, Box
Dane-Elec Dimm 512Mb DDR SDram PC2100 CAS2.

Could this work??

Thanx!!

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:50 am

a lot of confs work, very rarely without tweaking their host machine/operating system and also very rarely without any glitches. It is of general acceptance that intel work better than others

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 6:29 pm

A Celeron is good for typing letters, but never for audio processing because of small L2-cache. Take a cheap P4, you will never regret.

piet piel · Post by **piet piel** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:42 am

Guys,

thanx for the tips! I'm going for a P4 on the same motherboard.

Regards,
Manoah

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:11 am

>>>3xDDR

You can't have 3 DDR on p4pe unless they are single sided (which is less common).
You have have 2 maximum. check the manual on asus site.

piet piel · Post by **piet piel** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:40 am

ehr.. what do you mean exactly?

''ASUS P4PE is based on Intel® 845PE which supports 533MHz FSB, 3GHz+ CPU, Intel Hyper-Threading technology, CrashFree BIOS, C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall), 3 DIMM for PC2700/PC2100 memory''

From the Asus site.

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:48 am

I mean that you generally cannot use the 3 slots, exceptr if you use single sided ram.
I have a p4pe.
Check the manual,
http://www.asus.com/support/download/do ... uage=en-us

(slow and often unavailable).

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:50 am

I also use the same ram as the one you point (dane elec, which is actually Nanya).

piet piel · Post by **piet piel** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 8:19 am

Hmz.. as I can see now DDR is always single notched, SDR is double notched. So why doesn't it fit??

I dont understand.. damn.. i'm not even blond.