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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:42 am
by firubbi
do you think this mobo will work with pulsar2?
http://www.asus.com/products/server/srv ... erview.htm
thanks
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:08 am
by valis
I've got an aging dual Xeon here and it works great. I'm also still stuck on Logic PC which hasn't got dual cpu support but I'll tell you I never see the sluggish SFP graphics others complain of occasionally.
Also, I HIGHLY recommend not using the onboard promise RAID chip on that motherboard (unless its to perhaps attach a cd-rom or two). The GIGABIT ethernet might cause a few probs too if used while you're using a Pulsar. Other than that (and disable the 6 channel audio) you should be good to go I imagine.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:31 am
by firubbi
Thanks valis,
i wanted to use sonar 3 and rewire reason. hope it will work.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:28 pm
by Sunshine
Does that mean SFP supports Dual processors?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:00 am
by Micha
No, the software has to be rewritten to support this.
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:50 am
by Ricardo
I've been looking around lately, and my creamware supplier tech guy said 'avoid dual processors for now'. He acually recommended an Intel 875 PBZ.
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:14 pm
by valis
SFP has run fine on my dual since 3.0 debuted (2.04 was the first that would run on Win2k [98/me don't support more than 1 cpu] but there were bugs).
The main reason I run a dual is due to most of my income coming from graphics work where the non-streamed nature of the work means that processing can be more parallelized.
For audio you're not going to see the boosts you would imagine.
In fact I get about a 10% boost in Nuendo at the cost of some stability with its SMP support enabled, and yet I still get LESS effects and vsti's than Logic 5.51 running on the same pc.
Logic is NOT dual processing but it processes data in the audio engine only when there is an input for the plugin (audio for fx, midi for vsti) reducing overall load more.
Steinberg products however. process every plugin every time and are more susceptible to the dreaded 'denormal' issue as well as having higher overhead as a result.