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Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2002 2:59 pm
by RyanC
Sub I know what you are going to say, go intel but heres the deal, I'm thinking of going with a northwood laptop with a magma chassis to run pulsar, giga and cubase for vsti's while using the other comp with a hammerfall for sonar plus have the laptop rig for live use. The sis mutiol is theretically faster than ich2 or v-link. 200mb/s faster. I'm wondering if somone can run sandra or masterverb test on a sis645/650 chipset and see what they get. . . there have to be some users and there are no "pci error" posts for any sis645/650 user. I heard you (sub) say that you get into chipset design, in your opinion is it possible that another company might build a better chipset than intel? Because sis is making the effort to claim that their design is supperior (theretically it is) and I don't see that ne1 has checked it out. just curious really because all benchmarks that I have seen the sis outperforms even i850 when ddr333 is used.

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2002 3:16 pm
by subhuman
Those magmas really kill your PCI, if you don't use reverb, samplers, and only minimal delays, it should be okay.

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 1:16 pm
by RyanC
Do you know someone who has one? the more I look the problem is you also have to use the pcmcia bus for HD's too. I was thinking that the 650 with a 962 southbridge could use a usb 2 HD allowing a seperate southbridge connection but these don't seem to perform that well. hmmm, I guess I'll go back to plan A, and rack up a real comp. sorry I'm just thinking out loud here. thanks sub,

Ryan

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 2:45 pm
by subhuman
Hey no problem always happy to share my experience and try and guide in the right (working without too much pain) direction...