i'm impressed.....

Post by **garyb** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:55 pm

asus p5wd2 premium
intel p4640Prescott 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB 775 2MB Cache
1Gbx2|CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-5400c4
eVGA GeForce6600GT PCIe 256MB DDR3 Video
WD2000JD 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM
Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
WD3200KS 320GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM
Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer

dunno how it'll be with scope(fine i'm sure,i'll let anyone who cares know..), but man, this thing is pretty fast, windows installed in well under an hour. not too expensive, either...

rolo · Post by **rolo** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:58 pm

lucky b......

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:34 am

windows installed in well under an hour. not too expensive, either...

An hour that's a long time isn't it.I get it in less than half an hour.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:17 am

not an hour, WELL LESS than an hour, installed and tweaked.

i knew when i wrote that, i'd get that response. it's not my computer, so i can't get into a personal war over it, it does run very fast and nicely for a 3.2ghz machine. there's no hot rodding or super cutting edge parts, so i'm sure it'd lose a pissing contest...

the stock p4 775 fan is kinda noisy. but the whole machine is quieter than many. the wd sata drives are VERY quiet. otherwise it's quiet enough.

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:54 am

Hello garyb

did you test your new pc with your scope boards (if yes how many ?)
I'm looking to buy in the next time a new one too so it would be nice to know about your first experiences.

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:59 am

hey, gustav!
actually, it's not for me, it's for a client,but this pc looks promising. it won't see scope until next week or so. i'll post impressions then.

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:09 am

dtb · Post by **dtb** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:41 pm

"I'm looking to buy in the next time a new one too so it would be nice to know about your first experiences."

... me too!
cheers
tom

Post by **garyb** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:28 pm

just waiting on an allkey file!

cortone · Post by **cortone** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:29 am

garyb,

Have you had a chance to set up this system with the allkeys file yet? I think this is the way I would like to go. When you do, can you post info about the PCI slot that you used?

Thanks,
Cory

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:41 am

On 2005-12-30 21:55, garyb wrote:
asus p5wd2 premium
intel p4640Prescott 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB 775 2MB Cache
1Gbx2|CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-5400c4
eVGA GeForce6600GT PCIe 256MB DDR3 Video
WD2000JD 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM
Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
WD3200KS 320GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM
Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer

dunno how it'll be with scope(fine i'm sure,i'll let anyone who cares know..), but man, this thing is pretty fast, windows installed in well under an hour. not too expensive, either...

..you should try _that_ board with dualcore 830

cortone · Post by **cortone** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:53 am

AndreD,

I'd love to! Have you done some testing with this one? If so, do you mind posting your set up, esp. PCI slot for scope card? I haven't ordered one yet, as I am waiting for some user confirmation.

Thanks,
Cory

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:48 pm

as said before I'm just waiting for some good sign of garyb.
I was going for a no dualcore, P4 650 too because I'm a little bit afraid that this would cause problems. nothing sure.
So if anyone has tested something like this , would be really nice to post some words.

I will use a pulsar2 card and a srb (big one), and would like to be able to add a third one.

tgstgs · Post by **tgstgs** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:37 pm

want this ASUS p5wd2 premium too but i have 3 scope cards and how to connect STDM cable in 3rd slot?
there is a log distance between 2nd and 3rd slot
is there a longer cable existing??
where to buy??
thanx and good vibes from vienna

Post by **garyb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:37 am

the stdm cables i've seen will fit.

first the good news.
pci performance is ok, about 10 masterverbs.
everything seems to work fine, i.ve recorded 32 tracks at once in nuendo for about 5 minutes and replayed them without a click or hiccup repeatedly...

now the bad news.
the worst thing is that there is little choice for which slot gets used if you have a 14/15 chip card. the best/only slot to use is pci#3 which shares an irq with the main sata controller. this hasn't shown itself to be a problem(lot of tracks and opening closing programs while 32tracks are playing causes no glitch), but i don't like the idea...slot#2 is no good for a big card because the sata ports are then covered and slot#1 is very close to the video slot(if you have a card with a fan, the fan will be starved for air and if your video card doesn't have a fan, the heat might not be a great thing for either card). a couple of the smaller cards should be no problem, except for the proximity of the video card. slot#2 also has a badly positioned capacitor which might keep a card with an i/o plate from seating in the slot completely. once again, however, i haven't seen any early indication of problems in actual operation.

it's obvious that this motherboard was made for gamer types or video editing. it has two big pcie slots which are mainly for video cards. it seems the the older boards were a little more fit for audio purposes...i think i'd rather use an older motherboard with agp video, personally. i think that an audio card would be happier with a true pci motherboard at least for the moment. even though this machine is very fast, all in all it really doesn't seem to be THAT much better than the systems i've built around the intel d875pbz or d865perl. i'd go with the older, cheaper, reliable machine still, at least for the moment.

it's good to see that the newer chipsets work well with cwa cards. i'm interested in anyone else's impressions or experience....

Post by **garyb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:51 am

some possible 4 pci slot mobos..
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboa ... /index.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboa ... /index.htm (btx form factor)

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboa ... /index.htm

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:08 am

I´m running the D830 together with 3 cw cards 24/7. (pulsar1, 2 and scope).

cortone · Post by **cortone** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:07 pm

Thanks for the replies. I ordered this board based on AndreD's reply yesterday as I would really like to have it by this weekend...I'm a bit nervous now after garyb's report but I'm reassured that Andre has been running this extensively. I have a Scope card so I'll probably end up using slot3. I will be using a low-end graphics card w/o a fan, so I may experiment with using some very small fans to flush the heat from between the Scope card in slot1 and the graphics card. Even it slot3, it sounds like there is good stability. I'll let you know!

Cheers,
Cory

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:03 am

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gustav · Post by **gustav** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:06 am

I'm a little bit nervous too - I would like to go for the P5WD2 - But I'm hesitating :

AndreD was going for dual core with 3 cards and it seems to work fine

thedavewalker with the same mb and cpu got some freezing and crash problems (2 cw cards + ...)

garyb tried the same mb but with a P4 640 and related some interesting things :
pci#3 : shares irq with sata controller
pci#2 : sata ports covered - badly positioned capacitor might keep a card from seating in the slot completely.
pci#1 very close to video slot (heat!)

AndreD, did you encounter any of this problems and if yes how did you resolve them ?
Are you using SATA drives ?
Thx