i'm impressed.....

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

[ This Message was edited by: gustav on 2006-01-18 02:09 ]

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

Post by **garyb** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:22 am

it does seem to work just fine with a professional card in slot #3, however....

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:45 am

Thanks Garyb
But I have 2 cards, and certainely 3 in near future if the configuration that I will buy now seems to support it
This is why I'm looking for experiences with more than one card...

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:32 pm

I'm now configuring & testing the new system:
asus p5wd2
4 GO Ram
P4 830
matrox perhelia
1 pata (system)
2 sata raid0 (music)

master verb pro test : the eleventh causes
"A capacity limit of your DSP cards has been reached ..."

I have 1 Pulsar2 and 1 SRB14
they are on IRQ 21 and 22 (not shared)
installation is not pc standard but acpi

What are the things I can try to get better results ?

[ This Message was edited by: gustav on 2006-01-25 18:36 ]

Post by **garyb** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:55 pm

looks good.
turn off all the xp "eye candy", of course...control panel/system/advanced/performance-settings...

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:27 am

On 2006-01-25 18:32, gustav wrote:
I'm now configuring & testing the new system:
asus p5wd2
4 GO Ram
P4 830
matrox perhelia
1 pata (system)
2 sata raid0 (music)

master verb pro test : the eleventh causes
"A capacity limit of your DSP cards has been reached ..."

I have 1 Pulsar2 and 1 SRB14
they are on IRQ 21 and 22 (not shared)
installation is not pc standard but acpi

What are the things I can try to get better results ?

[ This Message was edited by: gustav on 2006-01-25 18:36 ]

what do you expect?
This message is related to your Scope-Card, not to your PCI-bus...

[ This Message was edited by: AndreD on 2006-01-26 00:46 ]

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:58 am

there is no such thing as a 'masterverb pro test.
the original 'test' uses the standard MV as a convenience 'unit' because almost everyone has it.

I assume 11 'pro' instances are pretty good (as Andre mentioned) - considering the DSP load of other quality reverbs.
but great PCI performance if the DSPs gave up earlier

cheers, Tom

[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2006-01-26 01:00 ]

gustav · Post by **gustav** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:18 am

oh ok I misunderstood ...

I understand that there is no pci problem and this is pretty nice !

But I would like to understand why the dsp load was only about 2/3 of the total capacity when the message came up.

Thx!

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:26 am

The DSP-Meter shows the amount of DSP load, in your case, it seems like the maximum of dsp-memory has been reached.

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:20 am

..... almost everyone ...

almost.....

What's the advantage in changing? that's just a measure unit to check pci, not CWA devices...smaller the measure unit, more detailed the measure...isn't it?

Not forgetting the comparation with already done tests.

Lima · Post by **Lima** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:58 am

What's the advantage in changing? that's just a measure unit to check pci, not CWA devices...smaller the measure unit, more detailed the measure...isn't it?

It sounds right to me. Maybe could be usefull to add another test using an effect less memory hungry than the masterverb.