CPU choice

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:43 pm

Astro,...Man Or Myth, That is exactly why my friend did it too. He dropped the multiplier while speeding up the memory bus. This made the CPU fan and PSU fan damn near non existant. Since his RAID tower is external you can see the advantages of this while recording. After all, Giga and Scope are perfect mates as they use everything but the CPU,i.e. HDD's,DSP's,etc. My 3.9GHz P4 never ran at that speed but was stable while testing the box. It makes me feel better to see my machine run hot w/o failure. That way I know that live it will be stable, for I know that Scope won't fail me.

Strength And Honor,

arela · Post by **arela** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:22 pm

hi evdb
I built this x2 4200 as my new internett/office pc.
The old was getting tired, but is now going to be my linux teaching machine.

Like the wise men above, i would go for Intel if i was going to build a DAW.

bronYaur · Post by **bronYaur** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:44 pm

I suggest P4 no dualcore 3.6 3.8 and intel MB like this:
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboa ... /index.htm
This is my next upgrade
Now i have p4 2.8 and intel MB MVR2(old 850rdram chip set) and nothing problem from 3 years,midi stability timing,low latency(7ms)and get 15 master verb whitout overflow

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Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:00 am

On 2006-05-17 23:22, arela wrote:
hi evdb
I built this x2 4200 as my new internett/office pc.
The old was getting tired, but is now going to be my linux teaching machine.

Like the wise men above, i would go for Intel if i was going to build a DAW.

Right. As great as AMD is, it's getting hard to find good nForce3 mobos -- and nForce4 has had less than stellar results. Until nForce5 (or whatever) comes out and fixes the PCI problems (if it has PCI slots at all!), AMD is becoming no longer a viable solution for Scope.

Eventually PCI slots will disappear altogether, and -- what do we do then?

Shayne

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erminardi · Post by **erminardi** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:04 am

I really don't know what are these fantomatic problems with Nforce4...
My system, after my 15 days of hard experimentation with fan, PSUs, heat, etc. (see relative tread) is a rock stable DAW.
Wow, i'm very very satisfied

MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:22 am

Hi,

Erminardi PC being based on an AMD 3500, it is a single core! An NF4 with a dual core would be a better candidate.

Cheers

erminardi · Post by **erminardi** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:11 pm

On 2006-05-18 11:22, MD69 wrote:
Hi,

Erminardi PC being based on an AMD 3500, it is a single core! An NF4 with a dual core would be a better candidate.

Cheers

I've read around that dual core is not so compatible with Scope. Be careful.
Or you mean that dual core is a better candidate to NF4 PCI problems?
I really don't have understand your post.

MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:36 pm

Hi,

I think NF4 + AMD Dual Core is potentially subject to trouble, and that it would be a better example.

Cheers

MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:37 pm

On 2006-05-18 14:36, MD69 wrote:
Hi,

I think NF4 + AMD Dual Core is potentially subject to trouble, and that it would be a more significative example.

Cheers

evdb · Post by **evdb** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:32 pm

hi everyone

at this point, i'm very curious if anyone has "hard evidence" (not "here say") whether AMD X2 + scope cards/software systems work OK or not. The court is now in session. Is AMD X2 guilty or not !!

cheers

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:36 pm

I think some people got scared off of AMD X2 by my posts in the past (is that what erminardi "read around"?), but I simply think my system isn't too good at high CPU loads at low latencies in any case, singlecore or dualcore. The Scope software itself worked perfectly fine. So I'd also like to know if anyone has truly gotten everything across the board to work with X2 or not.

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MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:21 pm

Hi Shayne,

In your case, it is an NF3, not NF4. There are peoples on Z who have a "working" config with NF3 and Dual core.
NF4 is a bit different as it was reported that Nvidia "identified" a bug affecting PCI bandwidth on NF4 SLI. A new revision of the chipset / driver was expected if I recall correctly.

cheeers