Looking for opinions on the P4PE Motherboards

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:59 am

My technician suggested this board to me. I checked here for impressions but found nothing really concrete.

To anyone who has this motherboard, please let me know how it performs in your Pulsar computers.

What exactly is hyper-threading?

Thanks

Paul

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:18 am

Hi there,

I use a P4PE/L in my DAW and it's great! no problems whatsoever and it's rock stable. I think you might like it

As for hyperthreading that's an intel feature only available on the P4 3.06 Ghz. It makes windows recognize one processor as two virtual processors since a cpu never uses all of it's pipelines at once, now it can handle two sets of instructions at once. So it would be like a dualprocessor system with only one fysical cpu installed.

HTH

Greetz

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:27 pm

I am very glad of it, it works very well.
Be aware that you have 3 slots of ddr but you can use :
- only two if you use a dual sided ram (in any slot).
- the three slots with single sided ram only.

The only thing I found so far is that i can't load more than 5/6 *masterverb pro*. even changing PCI Latency didn't change much. It's strange because I don't have this problem working with a great amount of tracks (80 lately+40 midi tracks or so) and a good amount of plugins.

For temperature and expandability etc its great, + supports ATA 133 HD and hyperthreading ....

I've seen that some SATA HD are out now so it may be an option (i haven't checked if sata is good yet).

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paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:32 pm

Dual sided RAM, single sided RAM...HUH???

Sorry, I am not a computer buff(I know, maybe I should become one). Can you please tell me what that means exactly?

What do you guys recommend most: Western Digital HD with that 8Meg buffer or the Seagate Barracuda.

Paul

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:39 pm

Dual/Single Side Ram : it's just what is in the manual. I Think mine is dual (was more common when i got it). ask your dealer

I use only Maxtor hard drives, i find them very reliable and support ATA 133 (that's the amount of data it can transfer : 133 mb/sec (i think). they have 8mb buffer (i've been said it makes the system start faster). Latest ones have FSB (or something like that), that is more silent (it is more silent, as i have a maxtor like that).

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deejaysly · Post by **deejaysly** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:47 pm

Recently installed a P4PE after having an ABIT BE6-II Rev.2.

I am completely not a big Windows Tweak person (running Windows 98), but between the two motherboards, I think I got, like, double improvement.

Don't know whether that "Reverb test" is any good but with the ABIT mobo I only got about 8 Masterverbs before the PCI collapsed on me and with the P4PE, I get 16! whoohoo. Summit like that anyway.

(1GB DDR333, 36 DSPs and a bit peeved about the new smaller faster DSPs CW gunna use

)

HTH

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