We've been running the new system for a few days now, so thought I'd report back as promised.
After some juggling, got the Pulsar2, RAID Card and a Firewire card all running OK on the PCI bus.
Firewire car works great, captures video straight to the RAID card.
The RAID card and array works great, I was happily mucking around in Pulsar while the array was building/formatting without any problems.
Pulsar seems happy enough, no PCI overflow messages and no problems to speak of within the Creamware OS.
installed all my audio software, the root of which is VST/32 (v5.1) and Pulsar 3.0.
Everything is great,
except that when moving things around in VST at anything over 50% CPU, I'm getting clicks and pops in the audio. That's running at 7ms which used to be fine on my old 800Mhz Pentium 3 ! I even get a click/pop when the arrangement window scrolls/flips along. This is behaviour I haven't seen since Pentium 2 days
I'm thinking it's the graphics card, which is a X1300 PCI-e. But I'm not sure why as others on this forum seem to be using the card OK.
I've turned off all the enhancements, set to 16 bit, and even turned off hardware acceleration (which made things worse).
I also upgraded to Scope 4 yesterday, and things got
even worse 
So I'll be going back to Pulsar 3 for now (Scope 4 doesn't really seem to offer anything new anyway).
I did have a lovely new Matrox G550 to try, but sadly this board doesn't use AGP - BUGGER!
Will be getting some more up to date VGA drivers as i'm running the Dell ones.
But, does anyone have any other ideas what I can try before I resort to buying another GFX card? Any settings in Pulsar/Scope or VST which might help?
All help appreciated
