My new DAW is running
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:06 pm
I'm on the final steps rearranging the setup of the rig in my home studio.
The new machine based on Intel DP35DP, Core 2 Duo E8200, Kingston KVR800D2N5K2/2G, is running good, cool and silent.
The only noise source now is the WD Raptor 76GB, and I'm still in doubt if use it as system disk or boot the system from the Seagate Barracuda 11 360GB, that's much more silent.
Although the Barracuda has a burst rate quite higher than the Raptor, as a single plate 7200 RPM disk, its seek time is far higher than 10 ms, so the Raptor might suit better as data disk, although 76GB could be anyhow tight...
Setting up again the old machine (I'm gonna use it as support PC), I've become aware about how abstruse the BIOS of the previous motherboard is. Unless I took the manual, I was not able to set it for correctly work with a single SATA HDD, once I disassembled the RAID 0 stripe from it.
The only BIOS feature I miss a lot is the boot selection menu splashing by F8 during the POST (without accessing the whole BIOS setup).
There are no shared IRQ now for the 2 CW boards, using the DP35DP and it wasn't needed to disable anything (all USB, IE1394, COM and whatever, are active).
It also wasn't needed to move the two Luna II in different slots.
Unluckily I can't perform the Masterverb test since I run out of DSP before reaching the PCI bandwidth limit.
Any cheap (but working) Scope Project or Professional for sale?
The new machine based on Intel DP35DP, Core 2 Duo E8200, Kingston KVR800D2N5K2/2G, is running good, cool and silent.
The only noise source now is the WD Raptor 76GB, and I'm still in doubt if use it as system disk or boot the system from the Seagate Barracuda 11 360GB, that's much more silent.
Although the Barracuda has a burst rate quite higher than the Raptor, as a single plate 7200 RPM disk, its seek time is far higher than 10 ms, so the Raptor might suit better as data disk, although 76GB could be anyhow tight...
Setting up again the old machine (I'm gonna use it as support PC), I've become aware about how abstruse the BIOS of the previous motherboard is. Unless I took the manual, I was not able to set it for correctly work with a single SATA HDD, once I disassembled the RAID 0 stripe from it.
The only BIOS feature I miss a lot is the boot selection menu splashing by F8 during the POST (without accessing the whole BIOS setup).
There are no shared IRQ now for the 2 CW boards, using the DP35DP and it wasn't needed to disable anything (all USB, IE1394, COM and whatever, are active).
It also wasn't needed to move the two Luna II in different slots.
Unluckily I can't perform the Masterverb test since I run out of DSP before reaching the PCI bandwidth limit.
Any cheap (but working) Scope Project or Professional for sale?