I'm about to buy a new PC (for my soon-to-be DAW) and think of following configuration:
- MS-745 ULTRA SIS 745 ATX DDR 333
- AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1733Mhz TROUGHBRED
- 512Mb DDR 333MHz PC-2700
Any comments?
I don't have Pulsar yet and my question is, can I somehow test this config before I get the Pulsar? What are the best benchmarking testers?
You can not benchmark your way to a good Creamware setup. The most important part seams to be PCI-timing, wich - as far as I know - is not measured by any benchmark.
I have tried a sis735 based mobo, and it did not perform very well - even though it was said to have the highest PCI-bandwith.
The usual safe tip is to get a motherboard with a Pentium chipset. Those usually needs little to no tweaking to get working very good.
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
The only problem is that I don't have Pulsar yet. And I should know somehow whether it is good mobo or not...
Maybe it's best to wait for Pulsar... and check what are available then.