Pulsar on a Dell Dimension 8300 Anyone??

magni · Post by **magni** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:33 am

I'm currently running Cubase SX2/Pulsar 1(The original soundcard, the one with 4 )chips on A Fujitsu (Pentium 3,450Mhz). I'm planning to buy a new computer, and am concidering buying a Dell Dimension 8300 (Pentium 4 HT with a 3GHz processor). I wonder if there is anyone out there who is using Pulsar with a Dell Dimension 8300???
Any problems???

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:58 am

There should be no problem with CW since all audio processing is happening on the Pulsar card, that was the ideea (to take the audio processing off the main CPU). You'll encounter problems (on the old system) when trying to use CPU intensive VST plugins and effects (more at the same time).

On the new Dell, try to find out what type and model of motherboard it uses. Also what chipset, that is the most important. Then post that info here or search the forum.

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Astral Fridge Magnet · Mon May 03, 2004 4:40 pm

Maybe not 100% relevant, but I used to run my Pulsar card in a 450 MHZ Pentium Dell Dimension, released more than fours years ago now and I had no problems whatsoever.

magni · Post by **magni** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:18 pm

The computer that I wanna buy has the following specifications:
Intel 875-P chipset, 800MHz SystemBus
3,0GHz Intel P4 HT 1MB Cache
512MB DDR400-RAM DualChannel
120GB SATA 7200RPM diskur v/8MB DataBurst cache

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Tue May 04, 2004 10:03 am

That seems a good chipset, Linux users have some problems enabling DMA on that chipset (see Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... 5+problems )