Intel DP35DP BIOS guestions

[dawman]

Good news for 8GB's of DDR2-800/ DP35DP DAW's.
I doubt I will use it but I already have the RAM since it was cheap.
I have a friend who just has to have the biggest Romplers made and wants them all loaded too.
He was waiting for me to upgrade and I just found other ways to load PhysMod VSTi's and Romplers w/ DSP synths, so I am good unless I go for these huge 20,000 sample instruments.
But for the last 2 weeks he wouldn't answer the phone?
Then a while ago I get the call to go and see the rig. No way Jose, NFL rules on Monday nights. Tommorow day I will go and check it out since he never works.

At any rate he runs VSL 64bit, EWQLP 64bit and other gigantic expenisive libraries. He uses no Scope cards, but claims the October BIOS update w/ Vista64 and 8GB's of RAM boots up fast, and can hold twice as many instruments on his overpriced FLEX DDR 2 DIMM's. He has the E8500 and the low latency RAM timings adjusted in the BIOS. I also use CL5 but didn't notice a difference. With Vista64 and 8GB's of RAM the cores appear to handle higher plug in counts of IR's and time based effects.

I looked it up and here's the update in case some want to be brave and do the same.
Personally I will wait till the laptop debacle gets stable and working.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... me=Windows* XP Professional x64 Edition&lang=eng

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17014/e ... Readme.pdf

P35/P45's by Intel sure look to be a longterm wise investment for Scope cards, and DAW's w/ Cubase/ VSTi stuff.

[dawman]

Here's the Scoop.

The DP35DP runs better w/ Vista64 ??
XP64 runs well also as far as Boot time and loads go, but lacks the workload placements of Vista.
PLAY is a new sampling engine that works well depending who sets it up.
Seems very powerful but quite unnecessary for my needs. 20,000 samples is just ridiculous and definately something I won't need.
But the OCZ RAM that was CL4 wouldn't post due to it being 2.0 volts. He couldn't change the SPD settings, so G Skill DDR2 800 1.8>1.9 volt CL4 w/ 4 x 2GB sticks won the day.
Funny that he had 2 x 2GB sticks of the OCZ RAM running fine in XP32. The extra GB's he bought was too much for Vista I guess.

More and more I am learning that the best RAM, fastest MoBo, fastest HDD's, blah,blah,blah..don't mean Jack Shit.
The P35/P45 Intel boards will be great boards for a long time. There's no need for a faster CPU, or faster RAM. I actually think the best upgrade is to go 64bit, but not until the need arises, and the apps support it.

One thing I noticed that Gigastudio 4 XP64 works great. GS4 hates Vista 64.
Romplers seem to like Vista 64 better.

These app.'s & O.S.'s act like women and children...very finnicky.
XP32 bit takes a beating nightly and asks for more........Jake LaMotta for sure.

The DDR that worked happened to be the cheapest, and slowest.