HD and DDRAM overcloking and audio performances

[bill3107]

As i have an "old" ASUS P4G8X which is extremely stable and allows me to get 4/5 instances of my favourite P100 at 48 khz without any problem, i definitly want to keep this very reliable board (dual ddram) .I would like to boost the perf though.

1) As for the DDRAM, is it worth it to overclock the ddram (using ddr3200 istead og 2100 and modify timing settings in bios), when it comes to audio perf? I mean, will it change something for my audio flows?

2) I was thinking about 2 SATA drives (instead of my 2 ide) or 1 IDE + 1 SATA But i don't understand what should be the best option? Which of the HD should be the fatser (sata) : the drive which contains the applications (scope, nuendo, vsti) or the drive containing the sample library. I have always thought that all the samples from my library are put in the RAM when they rae selected within teh vsti. In that case, the HD which has the role of "sample tank" can be a IDE, as the access to the sample depends on the ram... May be i am wrong?...

Jo

[garyb]

my advice?
leave the ram alone.
sata drives won't make that much difference.

a faster processor might help if you need more performance, otherwise a new processor and motherboard will be the only real choice.

[tgstgs]

i tested several HDs here is my expiriance:

dont mix ide with sata take this or that
the smaller the HD (GB whise) the faster it seems to be writingwhise (more takes to record at once!
the best performance i got with western digital raptor 74GB ones (4.5ms)

i have 1 for system 1 for data
the data one is clean (all free space) on each record session
backing it up after the session to GB monster USB HDs;

i had to add that this only makes sense for writeing to disk (audiorecordings of a conzert with a lot of channels)

with a cheep USb case for ide drives you can save your existing ides for backup so you dont loose anything

greetings