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This did it for me, chaning the order of things:

[HW]
numboards=3

[board0]
boardid=0

[board1]
boardid=1

[board2]
boardid=2

[Host-Config]
board0=host

And now I get PCI-overflow loading the 20th Masterverb instance! ..

I get the out of DSP-memory error when loading the 6th P100.

holy cow. that must be a record. how many stdm cables do you have?

I only have one. I've ordered more though.

The P2 works extremely well as a primary (board 0) card with a Pro card set to board 1 here.

So,after installing the p2 to my existing system i did the test again.
Hardware details did not change so see in my above post.
Pulsar1+Pulsar2.
I get 12 Masterverbs on this setup,it complains on Nr. 10 but loads 2 more.I run out of dsp cap then.I guess thats not too bad

- Asus P5B533
- Memory 1 GB (brand/type unknown)
- P4 2,0 GHz
- ATI Radeon 9000
-1 STDM cable
- ULLI = 7 ms @ 44.1 kHz
- 2 x Pulsar 2 + Pulsar 2 SRB (18 DSP total)

17 Masterverbs successfully loaded, PCI capacity limit after loading 18th MV (with DSP meter at about 75 %)

Asus P5AD2-E-Deluxe
Pentium 4 3.2GHz
1GB RAM
Geforce 6200 TurboCache
ULLI settings 7ms @ 44.1KHz

2x 15 DSP Scope Boards

PCI Overflow at the 10th MasterVerb!

Either is has to do with my cheap graphic card or the TC Powercore Element on the third PCI slot...

I havent set the card order yet. its using the scope 14 with no memory as first i want it to be last.

first reboot after installing everything

i got "dsp memory limit reached" after 13 .

supermicro CS2BE
pulsar2
scope SRB (14 dsp, no mem)
scope 15 dsp
geforce 8600 passive underclocked.
xeon x3210
4gb ocz budget ddr2 800 kit (2x2gb)
no optical drive.
corsair 450w PSU (will change for a modular one, too many cables im not using all over the place)

supermicro has very advanced overclocking! it says 5%, 10% and 15%
i set it to 15 so its the same as a q6600, seems to run cooler though.

this chip will go back in its home in HTPC when the new 45nm q9450 is out

disabled all the stuff like audio, extra PCI-e slots, serial, parralel floppy etc.
no optical drive, installed by USB flash drive!

the board seems much more geared toward a professional use than any of the taiwan/chinese designed ones. individual settings for each PCI slot latency, busmaster etc.

How far did you push the PCI latency timer: 40,80, A0, C0?

cheers

Michel

i only put it on 0x60, which i guess is hex for 96 , as people seem to recommend.

i am not sure if all the cards use one cards PCI connector to communicate with the PC or they all can send through the bus. in the first case, i would give it the max (card 0) ? , otherwise it should maybe be split up more evenly.

im helping someone move today, but if i get back reasonably soon ill do some more tests and take some pics to show how the boards barely clear the SATA and front panel connectors.
i dont think you could use all 4 SATA connectors, unless you can find a REVERSE 90degree SATA connector cable.

although if you have a case slightly less ancient than mine i think it has lower profile connectors for the front panel, and should be fine.

BTW doe anyone know if these cards are capable of bus mastering?

Hi,
I am gone up to A0 without artifact (even at 48KHz 64 samples on my system).
Above, you begin to have crakle when you open windows (vsti, menu,...) and max PCI usage.

cheers

Just rearranged my computing environment, p3 scope box was retired. Old Xeon box is now hosting my scope cards:

result = 12 MV's

i860 chipset on motherboard - Supermicro P4DC6+ (dual xeon board with 32bit pci & 64bit PCI-x busses, onboard u160 scsi on the PCI-x)
2x 1.8ghz Prestonia Xeons
1Gb 400mhz RDRAM

not stellar but if PCI Bandwidth ever proves to be a limitation I can downclock the scsi drives to 80mb/s in the adaptec bios & remove the OEM Sblive card that sits in there (using KX drivers) and get up to 14-15, which is where the box was back when it was my primary machine AND scope machine (ie, scope cards were in it initially back when it was my primary box).

i doubt that it will be an issue...

Is there a Warp69 A100 / P100 benchmark ?

Brotha Man Nuetron,

The Wolfdale's are smokin' the 45nm quad's in audio benchmarks ATM. That will change with new code from audio cevelopers by the next NAMM show.

Gigastudio 4 seems to be the only really quad friendly app out there now.

The shared L2 cache design on a multi-core CPU takes more IPS to sort things out than the faster Core 2 Duo designs.

Video apps are better optimised than our audio apps, as the competition there is fierce.

I am learning to watch their advancements as Cubase and the rest of the audio world already feels they have ample power.


Nice Board, Supermicro breeds hunters for sure.

Which I/O's do you have on your Scope board?

garyb wrote:i doubt that it will be an issue...

I agree, just qualifying my results for anyone that might care in the future (another Xeon user etc).

so was i!

valis wrote:Just rearranged my computing environment, p3 scope box was retired. Old Xeon box is now hosting my scope cards:

result = 12 MV's

i860 chipset on motherboard - Supermicro P4DC6+ (dual xeon board with 32bit pci & 64bit PCI-x busses, onboard u160 scsi on the PCI-x)
2x 1.8ghz Prestonia Xeons
1Gb 400mhz RDRAM

not stellar but if PCI Bandwidth ever proves to be a limitation I can downclock the scsi drives to 80mb/s in the adaptec bios & remove the OEM Sblive card that sits in there (using KX drivers) and get up to 14-15, which is where the box was back when it was my primary machine AND scope machine (ie, scope cards were in it initially back when it was my primary box).

wow rambus! those were the days
that machine can also be used to heat your home or iron your clothes

Someone should post the Xite-1 numbers, here... what was it? 137 ?

My supermicro CS2BE had a tragic accident involving a defective ebay USB hub. now it wont boot.
Use powered USB hubs for the first one connected to your PC!

so i got a gigabyte p35-DS3R, which is actually very nice for the price. it seems well made (taiwan not china) has all solid caps blah blah blah. but the colors are a bit hideous. asus does not make any card with 1 graphics and 3 adjacent PCI slots, besides i have kind of gone off asus lately.(i never though i would say that, times change!)

It gives me 3.5GB of 4GB in windows instead of 3GB. i believe because there is not an additional graphics card slot.
BUT on the cs2BE all the Scope and pulsar show up together on IRQ22 but on the D3SR they are all different and mixed in with what look like about a million different USB related things (usb host, usb2 host etc etc)

i just used my previous install because chipset and almost everything was the same, except ICH9R instead of ICH9 and different network chip.

A question probably for GaryB i tried setting the ACHI on the hard drives but windows will not boot. it shows xp logo for a sec than a quick BSOD and reboot

do i need a driver or something to use it? and is it worth it, i paid extra for the board because of NCQ supported by my drives.

I had a project with already 2 masterverb pros, and managed to load up 11 more masterverbs in to it before PCI limit. it seems 1 better than the CS2BE
and i changed from quad core to a dual core cpu. xeon E3110(which is the same as core 2 E8400 but easier to find and cheaper AND it has a cooler name!)

just for fun i tried overclocking and it went to 3.5 ghz without even trying (no voltage tweaks etc) and it runs nice and cool with scythe andy modded to a 14cm fan.

at stock speed it seems plenty fast enough, so i returned it .

Hi,

Too bad Neutron! Hope you'll get things sorted out.

BTW, when my system is OK, I buy a second identical MB as spare.part. If my MB fail I can replace it without having to reinstall the software.

cheers