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Hello guys,
I yesterday got asus p4c800e-deluxe,intel 3.0 boxed,and 512 ddr.I plan to purchase tommorow another 512 ddr ,to have 1gb of ddr ram.
As I am not experienced in motherboards,I know that this board have thousands of small settings,if anyone out there have same mobo,please help.HEre is the problem:
I have one hard disk,I will buy another one in future,to make multiraaid active.For now,I connected "normally"my hd(classic IDE connection),connected cdrw and dvd normally.I have Luna 2,I installed it without pproblems,geforce 4,without problems.I installed windows(first mistake-in ACPI MODE),but DID NOT installed any RAID controlers during installation on windows xp.So,I loaded project in cubase,and many of them was 30-40% of processor usage(on last machine-p3 1.1 box they were 90%),but then something strange happened.I made one new song,about 20 channels,and CLICKS and POPS started!!!!!!There was 2-3 effects on each channels.Effect I used are not kind of cpu-make-to-die,they are pretty "simple" effects.
Okay people,can somebody tell me what to do.Will another 512 of ddr make situation better?I need to play about 60-80 audio channels,loads of vst instruments...how to make it.Yes,what is TURBO mode in bios?IS that dual ddr mode?Is there any settings in bios that I need to make?

Thanks,
Best regards
Mirko

I personally think 1Gb of RAM is probably a necessity these days if running a modern sequencer and softsamplers etc BUT its entirely possible that what you're experiencing is the 'denormal' problem with p4 chips (actually occurs with all cpu's but the p4 pipeline makes it very noticeable).

If it is denormalling then you can try inserting the digitalfishphones normalizer in your first insert slot for any affected channels or just stop using old plugins and upgrade all the ones you need to the latest version, most developers should have addressed this 2-3 years ago now.

There are a few other tweaks I usually do to XP (I use ACPI btw and I suspect your mobo would do fine with it) such as disabling system restore, disable tagged queing, disable drive indexing & turn off screensavers. I don't find it necessary to do esoteric tweaks to my DAW box anymore however. I know there's a few threads on planetz with that mobo, might try search.

increasing your ram will probably not help. it might, but overall you should tweak your machine to do audio only (atleast partition up your drive, make a multi-boot and make one partition audio only).

If you buy a second HD, partition that one, make a single partition as "windows audio boot". run all your OS and audio apps from here, and keep audio data on the other drive.

If you run the same PC for Audio and other personal use, DISCONNECT THE AUDIO BOOT FROM INTERNET (disable network connection), do not run firewall/virus-killer/system monitors or anything else from that boot. tweak the audio boot as mentioned in numerous other threads. Then u will b safe, and live a happy life


btw, ACPI is prolly a good idea for that mobo.

Hi there,and thanks for the inputs
I got my 512 ddr,and now I have 1 gb,but clicks&pops are still there.I tried to overclock 20%,so now my cpu runs at 3.6 and activated turbo mode in bios...it helped a bit,no crashes,but still its clicking ocassionaly....I will try and contact creamware support,but I am afraid that will not help,I trust more to you guys.
I am really dissapointed,because I payed much money for my computer,and it just not working as I expected...
Okay,let me remind you of my setup:

p4 3.0 box
asus p4c800e deluxe
1gb of kingston ddr
asus dvd rom
teac cdrw
maxtor 80 gb

I don't use raid,I plan to buy two new hd's in future.So,if anyone have similar or same setup,PLEASE contact me on muzickimag@yahoo.com

Btw,is this overclocking safe?Or should I return it to original 3.0?

Thanks,many greetings from Serbia and Montenegro,
Mirko