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OMG,
This is a serious DAW. He is a video archiver, and scrubber, and part-timer w/ Scope. Nuendo is the host in this beast for audio, and some video chores, but it also has the biggest graphics card I ever saw, a Matrox RD.X2 SD, and a REVO 64 SATA RAID card running 5 x 500GB SATA HDD's.

He had a Pentium M780 that whooped my P4 boxes to shame before, but this one will blow away everything, as he OC'd it @ 9 x 444 !! This was not recommended, but rather a test to find a good sweet spot which was just below 3.6 GHz ( 9 x 400 ). This is insanely fast, and 4 x cores to boot.

But Scope works flawlessley w/ this chipset, as well as the 965 / 975 series. His pro apps are multithreaded, and also do 32bit via Vista, so he is always up and running. It's nice to have a friend ahead of the curve when it comes to Scope compatability, and new chipsets.

BTW, 3 x PCI @ 32bit tells me that next year when I upgrade, my Scope cards will have a home here, as Intel seems to want to stay w/ 2 x 32bit PCI's on their premier mobo's.

I have to believe since Nuendo can chew up, and spit out audio @ an alarming rate w/ RAID 3, and this CPU, that my choice of Cubase 4, was wise. Thank You GaryB.

Since his system is too extreme, but runs 24/7, this makes me happy. I know that future upgrades 4 me ( P35 chipset ), will be fine, as he is probably the first to use Scope w/ the new chips.

Only a Luna !!!
He says he will get a Scope Pro from GaryB this summer, which is a good idea. He only does routings, that's why he calls me for the synth work when he needs some dub overs.

The 3 slots should be filled with DSP cards, but his money maker is the REVO 64 RAID card which can stream massive amounts of data.

But I think I convinced him to use the plus version and introduce some high end hardware reverbs like the PCM91, or TC stuff along w/ his Aurora AES/EBU box.

He uses Scope for routing options. But he has a contract for over a hundred spots and needs to master in house. So the Scope Pro w/ his Lynx gear should do the trick.

He is interested in advanced mixing projects, and will never give up his RAID 3 card, as it rules in the A/V world w/o a doubt.

That's cool w/ me, 4 if he had my synths and presets, he would no longer need my services. He is the scoundrel I spoke of way back, when I came home from Japan w/ a wireless HDD ( 60GB's ), that had a pigtail you insert into a USB 2.0 slot. He would go to the big mastering facility here in LV, and download files of the competitions bids, so he could underbid, and steal the work. A very shrewd manuvuer indeed. Since he employs me occasionally, I can overlook his tactics. But I never leave a DAW overnight at his place, that's 4 sure.

Nice machine!!
Good to know about new ASUS mainboards to have 3 PCI slots for plugging in at least my two Pulsar cards when I'll update my P4 Asus one (or when eventually I'll break it ).
I was considering to get a third one from a friend who is dismissing his one for technical problems...
For a UAD card eventually there is always the PCI express version.

I saw anyway there is also the normal P5K (without deluxe) that costs much less... should work well that too.

The ASUS P5k works fine here with Intel Xeon Quadcore X 3210 and Scope + Pulsar 1
Just raid is not useful for audio-apps..

why won't three cards work? no doubt there'll be an irq traffic jam, but that really shouldn't be fatal..

RAID has a good benefit for live players, but only after it is disabled. RAID I does an excellent job of making perfect copies. Then disable RAID and keep the mirrored copy as a hot spare. The Raptors have never failed yet, but the mirror awaits it's chance. Giga also loves it's large cache and 10k spindle speed.

RAID 3 is the level for streaming audio / video for the pros. It doesn't have any advantage other than copying and archiving lots of large files very, very fast, all while having redundancy. The REVO 64 in RAID 3 allows failure / rebuild w/ no noticeable performance penalties. All other RAID solutions take large CPU performance penalties during their rebuild, which makes them useless IMHO.

Brotha' Man Andre,
You always have the best specs. My friend and you are always leading edge techies 4 sure. The Xeon puts you ahead of the pack. That is the 8MB L2 cache CPU that will definitely be a choice with Vista.
That CPU costs the same as a TYPE II Pro card !!..........................................update, I just saw it for 475 USD, that sounds cheap fro a quad X.


Strength And Honor,

garyb wrote:why won't three cards work? no doubt there'll be an irq traffic jam, but that really shouldn't be fatal..

This board needs a pcie grapic card and the 'typical' new graphic cards with silent cooler takes up 2 slots and therefor covers pci slot 1. . But if you dont need dual monitors you could pick up a pcie x 1 graphic card (or one without the silent cooler) and then you would be safe.

yeah, good point.
the cheaper graphic cards are still dual head, but more compact......