two cards on same irq

ARCADIOS · Post by **ARCADIOS** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:03 pm

i use a pulsar2 and a scope pro.
i have given irq 11 to both.
is it better giving them different irqs?
what is better?

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next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:40 pm

if u dont have any trouble, dont bother.

never change a winning team.

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:44 pm

Most experts recommend the same irq to 2 or 3 cards.

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:45 pm

It's perfectly fine, they just mustn't share it with any other thing.

ARCADIOS · Post by **ARCADIOS** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:45 pm

no troubles but i wonder if its a matter of more power dedicated to each card if each card has its own irq. i mean is there a bigger bottleneck with two irq's doing the same job?

ARCADIOS · Post by **ARCADIOS** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:47 pm

yes, and as i can see irq 11 is free for me.
offcourse i have disabled many unused stuf on the pc.
bios shows that my abit ic7-g motherboard has the three center pci slots free(no onboard device shares irq) for pci divices.
pci slot 1 shares always with a onboard device, the same does 5th pci slot.

a big problem i think is going to occur if i want to change motherboard.
the new ones have usually 3 pci slots and the other slots are pci-e.
lets say that my motherboard dies?
wich motherboard will give me atleast 2 pci slots without sharring?

scared for the future of my creamware cards..................

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next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:17 pm

well if u r scared, be sure that the best computers for scope is gonna get cheaper and cheaper

i am ofcourse talking about second hand "oldies". buy a cpuple of $150 computers and ull have youre scope for a loooong time. if u need more powerful machines later on, just control your scope PC as an external synth/efefct or whatever you want to use it for.

Tony B · Post by **Tony B** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:09 am

If you get problems with IRQ 11. 5 and 9 is also available.

erminardi · Post by **erminardi** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:33 am

On 2006-01-09 16:47, ARCADIOS wrote:
wich motherboard will give me atleast 2 pci slots without sharring?

scared for the future of my creamware cards..................

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I have 2 x UAD, 2 x Pulsar II, i need firewire and gigalan (because massive use of FX-Teleport):
I've found my ideal product: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum - Socket 939 AMD - Chipset NVIDIA (great!) nForce4 Ultra - ATX - 4PCI+1 pci express+1 AGP - RAID 0,1,5 serial-ata, Athlon64, etc.
It's the last GREAT mother-board before the quick PCI abandon from the market...
It's amazing!!!

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:57 pm

probably even longer...
just checked german eBay for the best P3 board, the infamous ASUS TUSL2-c:
9 are on sale - and how old is that thing ?

cheers, Tom