new mainboards with scope and SX/Nuendo

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:59 pm

Hi,
today, I tested some new mainboards and as long as I can say, the asus P5AD2-E Premium seems to be a stable and very fast board.
-nice pci-performance, even with warp-stuff

http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket7 ... erview.htm

Testsetup:
-P5AD2-E Premium
-hyperthrading
-Matrox P650 (PCI-Express)
-1 Pulsar 2
-1 Scope 1
-IDE parallel ATA
-Nuendo 3

All the best,
André

<img src="http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket7 ... d2-p_l.jpg">

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AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:30 pm

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ChampionSound · Post by **ChampionSound** » Tue May 31, 2005 3:42 pm

That's good news!! I guess you're the first one confirming that this board actually works well with scope cards!!

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Tue May 31, 2005 3:59 pm

Any numbers?

petal · Post by **petal** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:18 am

This is very interesting!

I checked the specs on this board and it says that there are three 32-bit PCI-slots, and three PCE-E, but when I look at this board I see three different kinds of slots. Could someone please explain this to me?

Thomas

arela · Post by **arela** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:11 am

hi
pci-e comes in different types?
X1,X2 .....X16

usefull reading
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1087

petal · Post by **petal** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:07 am

thanks

Vasfed · Post by **Vasfed** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:22 pm

On 2005-06-01 05:18, petal wrote:
This is very interesting!

I checked the specs on this board and it says that there are three 32-bit PCI-slots, and three PCE-E, but when I look at this board I see three different kinds of slots. Could someone please explain this to me?

Thomas

look at the photo: there are 3 32-bit PCI slots (white long rectangles

), 2 PCI-E 2x (short white ones) and 1 PCI-E 16x (black one), total 3 PCI 32 bit and 3 PCI-E

PS. exactly fits 3xScope

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arela · Post by **arela** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:43 am

and
what happens when we are going to buy ourself a new "something-card"?
Is it PCI-E in your pc? hmmm think so!
What kind, is it 1x, 2x....? hmmm hmmm!

Post by **garyb** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:52 am

of course, i have to post the intel version.....
http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/cv2/index.htm
(has another pci slot)

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petal · Post by **petal** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:06 am

On 2005-06-02 09:52, garyb wrote:
of course, i have to post the intel version.....
http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/cv2/index.htm
(has another pci slot)

[ This Message was edited by: garyb on 2005-06-02 09:52 ]

OK - Has anyone tried this board, or are you "just sure" it will work?

Cheers!
Thomas

petal · Post by **petal** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:08 am

Oh - Yeah, and Andre, is the Matrix Graphics card noisy?

jea · Post by **jea** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:50 am

Hi, I have tested the Intel D925XCV board,
with a P4 3.2G 2M L2 Cache, 2 G Ram, X600 VGA.

I was not happy with the testresults.

However the CPU performance was great.

petal · Post by **petal** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:01 pm

What exactly weren't you happy about? Did you have "problems" with your scope-cards and this motherboard, or was it "just" not as fast as you expected? Any glitches or any other annoyences?

Looking forward to your hear input!

Cheers!
Thomas

jea · Post by **jea** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:32 am

It is in fact very noisy.

There were problems running the performance-test found from nuendo.com, not sure what the test was called, but it measures nr of tracks before clicks and pops with a nr of vsti's etc.

Could not go low enough in latency, 6ms was barely ok....

So I was not happy with it.

petal · Post by **petal** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:38 am

OK - thanks for the warning.

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:49 am

On 2005-06-12 08:32, jea wrote:
It is in fact very noisy.

There were problems running the performance-test found from nuendo.com, not sure what the test was called, but it measures nr of tracks before clicks and pops with a nr of vsti's etc.

Could not go low enough in latency, 6ms was barely ok....

So I was not happy with it.

hhhmm, I did a whole native mix @ 4ms latency!!
there must be something wrong...
seems like the audio performance depends on board manufacturer.
any irq sharing or other issus, by the way?

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jea · Post by **jea** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:11 am

I do not remember.

At the time I thought it was really bad.

But it was the two tests the users rave about over at nuendo.com

Then I read something on the rme tech site, that the new mainboards had problems, making a glitch every x minute.

But the CPU performance was very, very good.

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:19 am

On 2005-06-15 06:11, jea wrote:

Then I read something on the rme tech site, that the new mainboards had problems, making a glitch every x minute.

That was my first thought too but the test changed my mind...
Now, I´m working at 4ms latency without any glitch or crackle

jea · Post by **jea** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:29 am

Are you using the Intel D925XCV?